Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???

Subject: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 07:47 PM

found it thanks...

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 09:20 PM

One of the several Scots ones or the Irish one?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: alison
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 09:47 PM

you might have more luck looking for it under the title of "the laird od Cockpen" or "when she cam ben".....

lovely tune

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: alison
Date: 28 Jun 01 - 09:50 PM

here are the dots

JC's tinefinder

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 04:44 PM

X:1 T:The Bonny Moorhen S:Hogg's Jacobite Relics, 1819
L:1/8
M:6/8
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(BA) B dBA|GEEE2||\
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 04:56 PM

Songs called "The Bonny Moorhen/Muirhen" are in the Greig-Duncan Collection, (#1426) (and see Bonny Black Hare, #1427) and in Hugh Shields' 'Shamrock, Rose and Thistle', and on the Bodleian Ballads website (plus the reworked political one in Jacobite Relics).

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From:
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 06:57 AM

thanks all I found it on my own pages of newcastle songs....but had started the thread... Conrad

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: Big Tim
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 06:35 AM

Seek out the 60s recording by Ewan MacColl on his Songs of the Jacobite Rebellions, if you haven't already.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 09:47 AM

On Folkways and Topi labels, but that's just the reworked poliitical one mentioned above.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 11:31 AM

"A New Song called the Bonny moor hen", is in a manuscript of c 1770 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and commences "There's a lad in this town has a kindness for me", without tune direction. A variant or imitation text is in the later (c 1785) Mansfield/ Eliz. St. Clair MS, commencing "There's a lad i' the town has a fancy for me". The latter has the tune direction "The Taylor fell thro' the bed Thimbles and a". This is a song to a tune that goes by several titles. It's "The Taylor's March", #173, in Vol. I of Aird's 'Airs' (on Jack Campin's website). It's basic name is "Beware of the Rippels" and is found as early as 1694 in the Atkinson MS. (The song is in 'The Merry Muses'). Hogg's "The Bonny Moorhen" looks rather like a minor mode version of "The Ripples". Cf. also "Logie o' Buchan"

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 12:02 PM

I've requested a copy of the song in the Bodleian MS, but the process usually takes about 3 months before one has text in hand.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Bonny Moor Hen Tune???
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 04:32 AM

I have a version recorded by Steeleye Span on a compilation called 'Original Masters'. Dunno what album it was on originaly. If it is not too damaged to put on tape would a copy be any good to anyone? Or if anyone wants the album it is one of the ones I am giving to the mudcat auction. But it is in poor nick:-(

Cheers

DtG