Like shall I go, love should We remain, Like will I go different method
W]hy can you name so it a good-looking sleep in which none lays on but a slave maid a servant maid altho’ she feel happy’s the man one enjoyeth thee
My] love’s regarding the Condition away from Armagh and that i me good way-off Oh easily got their own in the Condition away from down I’d rather then 10 thousand-pound
My personal like was sick and you will like to pass away and you can a good disappointed man one to time was We the good news is the brand new weaver enjoyes their satisfaction and you can marry’d to thee servant lass a slave lass though she end up being happy’s the man you to enjoyeth shee
Brand new broadside ballad “Have a tendency to brand new Weaver and you may Charity the brand new Chambermaid” Rawlinson collection, Bodleian, and also the Pepys Ballads , III, 132, 1987, is actually posted of the Phillip Brooksby, 1671-1685 (their target following changes). The latest song cited on the broadside are “To a nice the new track; Otherwise, I am good weaver from the my personal exchange. Or, Now i’m bound, &c,”. None of these audio is actually known.
Roy Palmer designs multiple variations from the song within his article ‘The Weaver in the Love’, Folk-music Record , 1977, however, I do not believe he lay some thing together truthfully
At this time i have just eighteenth century duplicates regarding “Often the brand new Weaver” (Holloway and you may Black’s Afterwards English Broadside Ballads , We, #123, “The latest Weaver along with his sweetheart” (Palmer’s D text message), and “#38 “New Fair Maid’s want to learn their A b c” (Palmer’s C text message, here). But In my opinion they were extra together to form the newest seventeenth century broadside. Read More