Recordings & Info 86. Young Benjie
[There are no traditional US or Canadian versions of this ballad. Barry, Brit Bids Me, 453 reports that a Maine woman recognized this ballad as one she had heard in her childhood in Ireland]
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index (Missing)
3) Child Collection Index
4) Wiki
5) Folk Trax
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud Number 3911: (16 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Bondsey and Maisry
Child Collection- Child Ballad 086: Young Benjie
Child--- Artist-- Title-- Album--- Year--- Length--- Have 086 Hilary James Young Benjie English Sketches 2011 No
086 Moira Cameron Young Benjie Sands of the Shore - Be Tricked or Betrayed 2007 No
086 Pete & Chris Coe Young Benjie Out of Season Out of Rhyme 1976 6:45 Yes
086 Phil Cooper & Margaret Nelson Young Benjie In the Dead of the Night 1988 4:59 Yes
Young Benjie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Young Benjie is Child ballad 86.
Synopsis
Young Benjie and Marjorie are lovers. They quarrel. She says she would take another love. Benjie tries to get in when her brothers are gone; when she refuses, he says he will take another. She comes down, and he murders her and throws her body in the river.
Her brothers find her body and watch it. At midnight, the cocks crow and she stirs. She tells them that Benjie murdered her and that they are not to kill but to blind him.
This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful (1912) and illustrated by Vernon Hill (sculptor).
Folk Trax: YOUNG BENJIE
- "O come along wi me, brother" "Of a the fair maids, of fair Scotlan, fairest is Marjorie - at dead hour the corpse began to thraw" - every 7 years end - take him to be a liar - penance for deadly sin - CHILD #86 - ROUD#3911 - Alexander Campbell Albyn's Anthology 1816 p34 - Text Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scots Borders 1803 3 p251 (Child A) - BUCHAN AB&S 2 pp253-4 - CHRISTIE TBA 1 pp92-3 (composite) - WHITELAW BSB pp169-170 "Bondsey and Maisry" -- BARRY-ECKSTORM-SMYTHE Maine 1929 p453 (Irish) -- Chris COE (voc/ h-dulc): LEADER LER-2098 1976 (Campbell's version)