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Charming Molly/Kate Lay Sleeping
American, Reel and Air (originally Irish)- USA, Southwestern Pa.
ARTIST: Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 251, pgs. 214-215.
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes DATE: 1800’s tune; 1900’s lyrics
RECORDING INFO- Tune: Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1940/1965), p 74c; Cronin, Paddy. Rakish Paddy, Fiddler FRLP 002, LP (1975), cut# 9; Monger, Eileen. Lilting Banshee, Saydisc SDL 348, LP (1985), cut#B.02; Killen, Lou and Sally. Bright Shining Morning, Front Hall FHR 006, LP (1975), cut#B.01
RECORDING INFO-What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor: Traditional Music in America, Folklore Associates, Bk (1940/1965), p389b (Drunken Sailor); Cox, Dennis & Lori. Tarbot Anthology. Cape Breton's Music Festival, Shag Rock SOTH 0001, LP (1978), cut#A.06; Crofters. Crofters, London SW 99535, LP (197?), cut#A.03 (Drunken Sailor); Kingston Trio. At Large, Capitol T 1199, LP (1959), B.04 (Early in the Morning); MacArthur, Margaret. How to Play the MacArthur Harp, Front Hall FHRBP 1005, Cas (1986), cut#p.36 (Drunken Sailor); Maitland, Richard. American Sea Songs and Shanties (I), Library of Congress AFS L26, LP (195?), cut#A.03 (Drunken Sailor); McGuire, Barry; and Barry Kane. Star Folk Volume 3, Surrey S-1022, LP (197?), cut#A.03 (Drunken Sailor); Seeger, Pete. American Favorite Ballads. Volume 4. Tunes and Songs, Folkways FA 2323, LP (1963), cut#B.06; The Group. 'The Group' Visits Puget Sound, Golden Crest CR 3056, LP (196?), cut#B.03 (Drunken Sailor); Twelve Buccaneers. Shanties, Boulevard 4071, LP (1972), cut#B.09 (Drunken Sailor); Unknown. Folk Music USA. Vol. 1, Folkways FE 4530, LP (1959), cut#B.03 (Drunken Sailor)
OTHER NAMES: "Kate's Laid in the Hay," "Round and Round the Green Sugar Tree," "Whitewashed Kate."
SAME MELODY: “Drunken Sailor/What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor”
RELATED MELODY: “Charming Molly;” “Goin' to Boston;” “Old Brass Wagon”
SOURCES: Harry Wingrove (Westmoreland County, Pa., 1946), Charles Clark (Fayette County, Pa., 1946), Eben Patterson (Allegheny County, Pa., 1930's), Samuel Losch (Juniata County, Pa., 1930's) [Bayard]. Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 251, pgs. 214-215.
SOURCES Breach Of Killicranky: Highland/ Reel (Am) Bayard DTF 1982 #231 p214 "Kate lay sleeping" - FELDMAN p88 2nd tune on page & p247 "The Lass of K" (Highland) - KENNEDY FTB 1951 1 p18/ 1994 #73 p20 alt: "Barrack Hill" - KERR MM 2 #23 p49 - Tunebook Ms #122 p310 & #134 p404 "Charming Molly" - O'NEILL (not in MOI) DMI #410 as Single Jig - MOYLAN 2 #320 p183 12/8 Slide from John O Leary (melodeon) "Barrack Hill" - ROCHE 2 #250 p23 6/8 "Barrack Hill" - see also THE HAUGHS OF CROMDALE - TRALEE GAOL -- Paddy BREEN (vert flute) of Co Clare rec by PK, London 1950: FOLKTRAX 078 - Johnny DOHERTY (fid) Untitled March: TOPIC 12-TS-398 1984
CHARMING MOLLY - "fair brisk and gay" "like nightingales in May - C M with the sparkling eye" - a dialogue between C M & C Johnny - ROUD#1213 & #1702 - DEAN-SMITH title: "Constant Johnny" - BARING GOULD 1889 SOW #80 "C Johnny" re-arranged by Fleetwood Sheppard - SBG-HITCHCOCK FSWC 1974 pp30-31 Roger Luxton, Halwell, Devon 1889 "C Johnny" - COPPER SESB 1971 p242 Family, Rottingdean, Sussex -- Jim COPPER, rec Rottingdean, Sussex 1951: RPL 16063 - Bob COPPER rec by PK: FOLKTRAX 239/ LEADER LEA-4046 (boxed) 1971 - Bob (solo unacc) Another version in 4x30 min progs Radio 2 Oct 1990/ CASS-60-1013-4
CHARMING MOLLY - Highland/ Short Reel - COLE p11 - Tunebook Ms 2/4 (Am) #134 pp404-5 - Cf BREACH OF KILLICRANKY Charming Molly
NOTES: "Oro se do bheatha bhaile" Irish, A Dorian. Standard. AB. Best known as the melody for the sailor shanty- “Drunken Sailor/What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor,” there are more vocal than instrumental versions of this air which was often used for playparty and shanty ditties, according to Bayard (1981). One of the playparty songs collected in Pennsylvania goes:
Say, pretty Belle, has your beau come
Say, pretty Belle, has your beau come
Say, pretty Belle, has your beau come
To help us with our dancing?
Yes, he'll come if yous say so (etc.)
Go give him a kiss and bring him in (etc.)
A shanty version has:
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Way hay and up she rises
Early in the morning.
And an Irish one:
You are my love in the hay all night
You are my love in the hay all night
You are my love in the hay all night
Till six o'clock in the morning.
Here are the lyrics to “Charming Molly:”
CHARMING MOLLY- Bayard (Dance to the Fiddle), 1981; No. 251, pgs. 214-215
Charming Molly, fair, brisk and gay like nightingales in May
All round her eyelids young Cupids play,
She has eyes so bright they shine
Black as any berry, cheeks like any cherry.
Charming Molly with sparkling eyes.
See how the swain do admire and desire a pretty little girl,
To hold her hand it burns like sparkling fire,
In her face these things are seen,
Violets, roses, lilies and daffadown-dillies.
Charming Molly she is all divine.
Surely there's no one loves a pretty woman if she be not common
Surely such beauty most men admire,
Surely there's no one can them despise
Because they are so pretty and they talk so witty,
Charming Molly with sparkling eyes.
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