Lord Lovel- McCauley (TN-NC-VA) 1937 Kirkland A & B
[From Popular Ballads Recorded in Knoxville, TN 1938 by the Kirklands. This has been Reprinted from Southern Folklore Quarterly, vol. II, no. 2., pages 65-80. Music and texts from Edwin Capers Kirkland and Mary Neal Kirkland, 1938.
There are two music versions and one stanza of text.
R. Matteson 2015]
LORD LOVEL
(Child 75)
Miss Clara J. McCauley in July, 1937, recorded two melodies, but only the first stanza of this well known ballad, which shows so little variation, especially in the first stanza, that it is impossible to compare the Knoxville fragment with other variants.
A. "Lord Lovel" was recorded by Miss McCauley, who heard this tune sung by several women in southwest Virginia.
[music]
Lord Lovel stood at his castle wall,
Combing his milk-white steed,
When down came Lady Nancy Belle,
A- wishing her lover good speed
B. "Lord Lovel" was recorded by Miss McCauley, who learned this tune from her father in Orange County, North Carolina.
[music]
Lord Lovel stood at his castle wall,
Combing his milk-white steed,
When down came Lady Nancy Belle,
A- wishing her lover good speed
A-wishing her lover good speed.