Recordings & Info 64. Fair Janet
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud Number 44: Fair Janet (22 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Liv'd Ance Twa Luvers In Yon Dale
Sweit Willie
Love Willie
Young Janet
Traditional Ballad Index: Fair Janet [Child 64]
DESCRIPTION: (Janet/Annet/Maisry) loves Sweet Willie, but is told by her father she must marry a French lord. She bears Willie's child and has him take it to his mother. At her wedding she hasn't strength to dance, but dances with Willie and dies. (Willie dies.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1769 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: love pregnancy marriage childbirth dancing death
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber,Bord))
REFERENCES (9 citations):
Child 64, "Fair Janet" (7 texts)
Bronson 64, "Fair Janet" (2 versions)
Leach, pp. 205-208, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
GreigDuncan6 1100, "Love Willie" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
Lyle-Crawfurd2 92, "Sweit Willie" (1 text)
OBB 52, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
Gummere, pp. 213-217+351-352, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
TBB 14, "Fair Janet" (1 text)
DT 64, FAIRJAN
Roud #44
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre" (tune, per GreigDuncan6)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Liv'd Ance Twa Luvers In Yon Dale
Child Collection Index-- Child Ballad 064: Fair Janet
Child --Artist --Title --Album --Year --Length --Have
064 Bell Duncan Fair Janet (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
064 Bell Duncan Fair Janet (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
064 Bell Duncan Fair Janet (3) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
064 Peggy Seeger Fair Janet Blood and Roses - Vol. 2 1981 7:11 Yes