Bold Outlandish Knight- Tanner (ME-MI-WI) c.1889
[Fragment from: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946; The Mills Music Library Digital Collections. Transcriptions and lyrics from the Helene Stratman-Thomas Collection. With music
Title supplied by collectors; only opening stanzas provided. Dan Tanner was born about 1866 and learned this from his mother- either in Maine or Michigan. I've attached a date of c. 1889 when he was twenty-three, although I'm sure he learned it earlier- It was collected in 1941 in Wisconsin when he 75. This is a very old version and one of the few "outlandish knight" texts found in the US or Canada.
The online notes follow.
R. Matteson 2014]
Version B, “The Bold Outlandish Knight,” sung by Dan Tanner, age 75, 1941.
Melody and text taken down from a recording made by Mr. Tanner’s nephew Paul H. Curtis, a University [of Wisconsin] medical student. Mr. Tanner was born in Bangor Maine and spent his boyhood in Michigan. When a youth, he worked for several years in Kelly’s Mills near Wausau, Wisconsin. Mr. Tanner learned “The Bold Outlandish Knight” from his mother.
The Bold Outlandish Knight- sung by Dan Tanner, age 75, 1941
O it was a bold outlandish knight came a wooing unto me;
O bring me down your father's gold, likewise your mother's fee;
And we will ride unto the north and there will married be, O be O be,
And there will married be.