Cruel Ship's Carpenter- Donald (NC) 1918 Sharp R
[Single stanza with music from English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians; Volume I; 1917 and 1932. Collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Olive Dame Campbell. Edited by Maud Karpeles. The 1932 notes follow.
Single stanza of text probably related to Gosport text. Unfortunately additional text is missing. Sharp's Diary: Weather quite cold when we get up at 6 a.m. and I put on my coat — but not waistcoat. Catch the usual 7 a.m. train for Dewey and walk on to Mrs Donald’s again. Get some songs from her but not nearly such good ones as on Thursday.
R. Matteson 2016]
No. 49. The Cruel Ship's Carpenter (1932 notes)
Texts without tunes:—Broadsides by Pitts, Jackson & Son, and Bloomer (Birmingham). Ashton's A Century of Ballads, p. 101.
Texts with tunes :—Christie's Traditional Ballad Airs, ii. 99. Journal of the Folk-Song Society, i. 172. Folk Songs from Somerset, No. 83 (published also in English Folk Songs, Selected Edition, i. 4, and One Hundred English Folk-Songs, p. 4). Cox's Folk Songs of the South , pp. 308 (see also further references) and 528. Wyman and Brockway's Twenty Kentucky Mountain Songs, p. 110, and Lonesome Tunes, p. 79. Journal of American Folk-Lore, xx. 262.
R. The Cruel Ship's Carpenter - Sung by Mrs. LAURA V. DONALD at Dewey, Va., June 8, 1918
Hexatonic (no 6th).
On last Friday morning just after break of day
The wind it blew both north-west, and ev'ry ship was free.