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Blow Away The Morning Dew
New England, Contra Dance Tune; Britain(England(Lond, South,West),Scotland(Aber,Bord)) US(MW,NE,SE)
ARTIST: recorded by Cilia Fisher and Artie Trezise
YouTube: Joni Mitchell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv0GmHMNFTw&feature=related
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1609 (Ravenscroft)
RECORDING INFO: Emily Bishop, "The Baffled Knight (Clear Away the Morning Dew" (on FSB5, FSBBAL2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVbCCs5z69E
OTHER NAMES: The Baffled Knight; The Lady's Policy; The Disapointed Lover; The Baffled Lover; Blow Ye Winds High-O; Clear Away the Morning Dew
SOURCES: Child #112 found in Pills to Purge Melancholy(1719) Laufman (Okay, Let's Try a Contra, Men on the Right, Ladies on the Left, Up and Down the Hall), 1973; pg. 3. Child 112, "The Baffled Knight" Bronson 112, "The Baffled Knight" Percy/Wheatley II, pp. 336-342, "The Baffled Knight, or Lady's Policy" Eddy 19, "The Baffled Knight" Leach, pp. 320-321, "The Baffled Knight" Friedman, p. 154, "The Baffled Knight" PBB 35, "Blow the Winds, I-Ho" Sharp-100E 19, "Blow Away the Morning Dew" Chappell/Wooldridge I, p. 136, "Yonder Comes a Courteous Knight" Kinloch-BBook V, pp. 17-21, "Jock Sheep" Silber-FSWB, p. 190, "Blow Away The Morning Dew" BBI, ZN2505, "There was a Knight was drunk with Wine;" Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc;
NOTES: (4/4 time). "G Major. Standard. One part. This famous folk air was adapted for contra dancing by caller. Child relegates the Percy text, and a similar one in the Roxburghe collection, to an appendix to this piece. Bronson classifies most versions of this song into a large tune group."(Kuntz, Fiddler's Companion, http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/fc).
Blow Away the Morning Dew
Cilia Fisher and Artie Trezise
There was a shepherd's son kept sheep upon a hill
He laid his pipe and crook aside and there he slept his fill
And sing blow away the morning dew, the dew and the dew
Blow away the morning dew, how sweet the winds do blow
He looked east and he looked west, then he gave an underlook
And there he spied a lady fair swimming in a brook
He raised his head from is green bed and then approached the maid
Put on your clothes, my dear, he says, and be ye not afraid
Tis fitter for a lady fair to sew her silken seam
Then to get up on a May morning and strive against a stream
If you'll not touch my mantle and let my clothes alone
Then I'll give you as much money as you can carry home
Oh, I'll not touch your mantle and I'll let your clothes alone
But I'll take you out of the clear water, my dear, to be my own
And when she out of the water came, he took her in his arms
Put on your clothes, my dear, he says and hide those lovely charms
He mounted her on a milk white steed, himself upon another
And all along the way they rode like sister and like brother
When she came to her father's gate, she tirled at the pin
And ready stood the porter there to let this fair maid in
And when the gate was opened, so nimbly's she whipped in
Pough, You're a fool without, she says, and I'm a maid within
Then fare ye well, my modest boy, I thank you for your care
But had you done what you should do, I ne'er had left you there
Oh, I'll cast off my hose and shoon and let my feet go bare
And when I meet a bonny lass, hang me if her I spare
In that you do as you please, she says, But you shall never more
Have the same opportunity; with that she shut the door
There is a cock in our father's barn, he never trod a hen
He flies about and flaps his wings, I think you're one of them
There is a flower in our garden, we call it marigold
He that would not when he might, he should not when he would
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