1 Filled with advertisements for the products distributed by Doyle's wholesale business, they were given free to Newfoundland households and schools, and to public groups like the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. — included, along with their analyses of the poetics of these traditions, extensive appendices, each containing what he described as "Bibliographical Syllabus. " The (St. John's) Evening Telegram. Here is what his text looks like: 1. Composer: Traditional Newfoundland. She's like the sunshine. "Repertoire Categorization and Performer-Audience Relationships: Some Newfoundland Examples. " How foolish, foolish you must be, To think I loved no one but thee; This world's not made for one alone; I take delight in every home.
Consequently his published version of her text is, in detail, not an accurate representation of either of her performances, or even of what might have been her ideal version: 2 Out in the meadow this fair girl went. 5 Out of those flowers she made a bed, And there she laid and never spoke. Maud Karpeles collected She's Like a Swallow from John Hunt of Dunville, Newfoundland, on 8 July 1930 [ VWML RoudFS/S160839] and printed it her 1971 book Folk Songs from Newfoundland. Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind. Aberdeen: The Elphinstone Institute, Occasional Publications 3, University of Aberdeen. Verse G. As collected: Peacock A (Decker), 3. They raise as many questions as they answer: What is the full publication history of Robert Johnson's "song"? 21 This version, which Cahill called "much more interesting, " remained unnoticed in the world of scholarship except by one indexer (whose published reference was, unfortunately, off by one month) (Mercer 176). In several places his text diverges from both of her versions, while in other places he chooses variant wording from first one, then the other, of her two performances. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers. "Turning New Leaves. " 14 A decade later, Smallwood, the editor of the volume in which Emerson's essay appeared, was leading the campaign for Newfoundland's confederation with Canada.
Montreal: Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions. So the female scholar pushed her edited version of the text toward lyric, while the male scholar pushed his toward ballad. The published texts of Karpeles and Peacock do not match their own ethnographic evidence — Karpeles edited Hunt's performance, while Peacock edited and rearranged Kinslow's and added a verse to Decker's, which he may have also rearranged. Decker did recall "C" — but Peacock has it coming much later in her song. Down in the meadow this fair maid went, A-picking primroses just as she went. She noted: Passed onto me by the wonderful Chris Coe.
She says:) "When I carried my apron low, My love followed me through frost and snow. 51 One frequently noted feature of lyric folksong is the way in which their verses "float, " as it were, in oral tradition, appearing in one song here and a different song some place else. La suite des paroles ci-dessous. Calling Karpeles's "the first text of a gem among English folksongs, " and noting that Peacock had collected "two other versions of similar quality, " he observed that Karpeles's "sole English version, gathered by her mentor Cecil Sharp in Cambridgeshire, looks to me, by the canons of aesthetic criticism, as though it might, like Newman's port wine, have been improved by a rough Atlantic crossing" (Story, 101). 66 Renwick (1980) gives further affirmation to the contextual appropriateness of this song. "Forty Years Later: Maud Karpeles in Newfoundland. " Although Peacock grouped Walter's performance (as "A") with a version of "The Butcher Boy" sung by Mrs. Kinslow (as "B"), these are two different — though closely related — songs. Search Roud index at VWML). There were no radios, and phonograph recordings were rare. Oh dear that CD is horrifyingly expensive - at least on Amazon. Kinslow clearly felt there was a "right way" to sing this song; when she did it for Peacock the first day she sang "A" after "B" and again at the end; the next day she recalled "C" and put it where she had had "A. " Hunt has known lots of songs, but he is old and childish and cannot remember things.