Jack Campin wrote:
>
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
> > Jack Campin wrote:
> >>>> - the ballad air "Lord Gregory", which is in 7-bar phrases.
> >>> Eight bar phrases, surely?
> >> This is the tune I know for it: [late-18th-century Scottish version]
> > I'm singing it in common rather than triple time and there are
> > several added beats. From Ewan MacColl's 1960s book and other
> > sources, and quite altered in modal quality too.
>
> According to his notes, MacColl's was from a version collected in
> Wiltshire. I wonder why he picked that one? Reminds me of something
> else entirely but I can't place it.
One reason I picked up on this tune was that it sings a bit like Tim
Rose's excellent 'Come Away Melinda' (which adds successive steps up in
key). MacColl only indicates a melody line, and I use a chord set which
starts on Gm but resolves to Dm which gives it a sort of 17th-c lute
song feel. Having said all that I can't honestly remember ever singing
this song more than a couple of times to anyone apart from myself :-) as
it's one of those long yins which quickly loses a pub audience...
David
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