on 24/11/2000 5:44 am, Bruce Olson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ewan MacColl recorded it on an LP, one of 8 recordings of Child
> ballads by himself and A. L. Lloyd. Originally on the Riverside
> label, then reissued on the Washington label, #723. He implied
> his tune was from a fragment from his mother. MacColl's tune is
> the fourth among the following given by Bronson:
>
> The song is Child ballad #232 (snipped)
>
> Here's the 'Pills' tune.
>
> X:1
> T:The Scotch Wedding
> S:Pills to Purge Melancholy, V, p. 42, 1719 (reprint)
> Q:1/4=80
> L:1/4
> M:C|
> K:F
> F/|F3/2G/A3/2A/|(A/c/)AG3/2F/|F3/2G/A3/2c/|f3/2e/d3/2c/|\
> d/e/ff/e/d|c/B/AG3/2e/|f/e/dc/B/A|G3/2F/F2||]
>
I have finally downloaded Barfly to listen to this. I must just be quite
rubbish at reading and interpreting tunes! It doesn't really bear any much
closer a relationship to 'Ritchie Storey' from GD than any other two ballad
tunes do to each other :-), though I can see that in an awkward way the
words could be made to fit. David.
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