Lyr Req: Thame Fair (from Dave Burland)

Subject: Thame Fair - a song
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 03:51 AM

Anybody have the words to this:

Says I to me self
I'll go to Thame Fair
I'll go to the meadow
And get the Grey Mare

Come on Old Lady
Come over old lady
We'll have us some fun over there
There away and oh there
We'er off to Thame Fair
Fol the rol the riddle de ree

It's on Dave Burland's second album - called I think just 'Dave Burland'. I think he learned from New Herritage, Keith Marsden and Brian Senior from Leeds.

Subject: RE: Thame Fair - a song
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 05:21 AM

Les, pm me your email address and I'll send you the words and music
from the Dave and Toni Arthur songbook, I could post the words but I cant post the dots.

eric

Subject: RE: Thame Fair - a song
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 05:32 AM

Looks like it might be a variant of 'Horn Fair'. Shirley Collins sings a Sussex version of this on CD3 of her 4 CD set 'Within Sound'(Fledg'ling Nest 5001, 2002). There is also a Surrey version in Roy Palmer's book, 'Folk Songs Collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams', Dent, 1983 (recently re-issued as 'Bushes and Briars', I think).

Subject: RE: Thame Fair - a song
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 05:38 AM

No, they are completely different songs, they are both in the Dave and Toni Arthur Songbook, quote " this version was collected by A L Lloyd from a Mrs Carclay in Hampshire in 1943.

eric

Subject: RE: Thame Fair - a song
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 02 Oct 05 - 12:22 PM

Thanks 'eric the red' - I stand corrected. Actually I don't possess the book that you refer to and I'm not a great fan of Dave Burland so don't have any of his records.