British & Other Versions 7Q. Deep in Love
Deep in Love
Roud Folksong Index (S308311)
First Line:
Source: Clive Carey MSS (VWML) YN 114 / nb 4/3
Performer: Beadle, Robert
Date: 1911 (22 Sep)
Place: England : Yorkshire : Stoup Brow, Fyling Hall
Collector: Carey, Clive
Roud No: 18829
Love (different Kinds of Love)
Roud Folksong Index (S337421)
First Line: Down in the valley the first of May
Source: John Johnson MS book (digital copy in Vaughan Williams Memorial Library) p.31
Performer: Johnson, John
Date:
Place: England : Sussex : Fittleworth
Collector:
Roud No: 18829
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The problem with these songs is that every stanza but two are floaters so here's a version collected by George Butterworth:
Down in those meadows fresh & gay,
Plucking flowers the other day,
I plucked those flowers both red and blues,
I little thought what love could do
The roses are such prickly flowers
They should be gathered when they are green,
I pricked my finger into the bone,
I left the sweetest rose behind.
I leaned my back against an oak,
I thought it was a trusty tree,
But first it bent,then it broke,
And so did my false love to me.
In yonder deep there swims a ship,
She swims as deep as deep can be,
Not half so deep as I am in love,
I little care if I sink or swim.
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Henry Hammond Manuscript Collection (HAM/4/22/7)
Deep In Love
First Line: As I was walking in the dew
Performer: Poole, (Mrs.)
Date: Jun 1906
Place: England : Dorset : Beaminister
Collector: Hammond, H.E.D.
Roud No: 18829
[4 stanzas with died for love ending]
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Deep in Love
Roud Folksong Index (S202930)
First Line: Down in yon meadows fresh and gay
Source: Harker, Songs from the Manuscript Collection of John Bell (1985) p.269
Performer:
Date: 1844c
Place: England : Northumberland
Collector: White, Robert
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As I Was Walking Over Those Foggy Moors
Roud Folksong Index (S393979)
First Line: As I walked all over those foggy moors
Source: Ken Stubbs Field Collection (tape 8) KS-08-3-06
Performer: Penfold, Eddie
Date: 1975
Place: England : Sussex : Brooks Green
Collector: Stubbs, Ken
Roud No: 18829
Subjects: Looked behind : Before : Sight went blind : Wrote a letter : Every line : Tear : William dear : Am I bound or am I free : Apples grow on orange tree
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Roud No: 18829
Deep in Love
Roud Folksong Index (S142349)
First Line: Down in the valley the first of May
Source: Kennedy, Folksongs of Britain & Ireland (1975) p.349
Performer: Stone, Gladys
Date: 1954
Place: England : Sussex : Fittleworth
Collector: Copper, Bob
Roud No: 18829
Deep in Love
Roud Folksong Index (S308311)
First Line:
Source: Clive Carey MSS (VWML) YN 114 / nb 4/3
Performer: Beadle, Robert
Date: 1911 (22 Sep)
Place: England : Yorkshire : Stoup Brow, Fyling Hall
Collector: Carey, Clive
Roud No: 18829
The Prickly Rose
Roud Folksong Index (S219064)
First Line: Down in yon meadow fresh and gay
Source: Christie, Traditional Ballad Airs 1 (1876) pp.226-227
Performer:
Date:
Place: Scotland
Collector: Christie, W.
Roud No: 18829
Deep in Love
Roud Folksong Index (S173247)
First Line: Down in the valley the first of May
Source: BBC recording 22740
Performer: Stone, Mrs. Gladys
Date: 1954 (27 Nov)
Place: England : Sussex : Fittleworth
Collector: Copper, Bob
Roud No: 18829
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A. Baring Gould
1.A ship came sailing o’er the sea,
As heavily laden as she might be,
But not so deep in love as I’m
For I care not whether I sink or swim.
2.I leaned my back against an oak,
Thinks I, I’ve found a trusty tree,
But first it bent & then it broke,
And so did my false love to me.
3.I put my hand into a bush,
I thought a lovely rose to find,
I pricked my fingers to the bone,
And left the lovely rose behind.
4.I wish! I wish! but ‘tis in vain,
I wish I had my heart again,
I’d lock it in a golden box,
I’d fasten it with a silver chain.
Sent me by Miss Octavia L. Hoare, Cornwall Cottage, Dean, Kimbolton. “Herewith I send melody & words of what I believe to be an old Cornish song. I heard it sung by an old Cornish parson, Mr. Walker of S. Enoder, who had picked it up from an old fellow in his parish.” 1889
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B.
1.Shall I be bound, & she be free?
Shall I love one that loves not me?
Shall I play such a childish part?
For woman’s love to break my heart?
2.Ten thousand lovers in the room,
But my true love’s the fairest bloom.
I’m sure she is the fairest one
I will have her, or else have none.
3.I saw a ship come sailing by,
As heavily laden as she might be.
But not so deep in love as I.
I care not if I sink or swim.
4.Down in a meadow t’ other day
I thought a lovely rose to find,
I pricked my finger to the bone
And left my lovely rose behind.
5.Down in a meadow t’other day
A plucking flowers red & blue,
I wandered doleful on my way,
And little thought what love can do.
Taken down from Mary Satcherly, an old woman, at Huckaby Bridge, Dartmoor, learned it from her father, a famous singer.