Lord Garrick- Miss Phoebe Wood via Mrs. Brown (NY) 1790 (NY) Child K a
[From: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child; Volume 7: Ballads 189-225; published December 1890.
The 1790 date was given in The Roxburghe Ballads:
The Roxburghe Ballads (1897), Volume 8 - Page 154 by William Chappell, Ballad Society reports this about Child K a: "and Mrs. Helena Titus Brown, of New York (in 1790)." Child, however gives no date saying K b. is "From Miss Emma A. Clinch of New York. Derived, 1820, or a little later." Both apparently are from "Miss Phoebe Wood, Huntington, Long Island, and perhaps learned from English soldiers there stationed during the Revolutionary war." Here are Child's notes for K a:
K. a. The order as delivered was 3, 1, 2, etc., and the high-heeled shoes were attributed to Lord Garrick. Him, his, he in 2 have been changed to her, her, she. But a further change should be made for sense, in 1, 2: the lady should take off her high-heeled shoes and put on her low-heeled shoes; see G 4, I 8.
Burden given also:
Lal dee dumpy dinky diddle dah day
R. Matteson 2012]
'Lord Garrick'- Version K a; from the singing of Miss Phoebe Wood, Huntington, Long Island; Child 200 The Gypsy Laddie
a. From Mrs. Helena Titus Brown of New York.
b. From Miss Emma A. Clinch of New York. Derived, 1820, or a little later.
a directly, b indirectly, from the singing of Miss Phoebe Wood, Huntington, Long Island, and perhaps learned from English soldiers there stationed during the Revolutionary war.
1 'Go bring me down my high-heeled shoes,
Made of the Spanish leather,
And I'll take off my low-heeled shoes,
And away we'll go together.'
Lumpy dumpy linky dinky day
Lumpy dumpy linky dinky daddy
2 They brought her down her high-heeled shoes,
Made of the Spanish leather,
And she *took off her low-heeled shoes,
And away they went together.
3 And when Lord Garrick he got there,
Inquiring for his lady,
Then up steps his best friend:
'She's gone with a gipsy laddie.'
4 'Go saddle me my bonny brown,
For the grey is not so speedy,
And away we'll go to the Misty Mount,
And overtake my lady.'
5 They saddled him his bonny brown,
For the grey was not so speedy,
And away they went to the Misty Mount,
And overtook his lady.
6 And when Lord Garrick he got there,
'Twas in the morning early,
And there he found his lady fair,
And she was wet and weary.
7 'And it's fare you well, my dearest dear,
And it's fare you well for ever,
And if you don't go with me now,
Don't let me see you never.'
*put on (see Child's notes)