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|f_annotation='''THE GREY COCK'''. AKA and see "[[Saw You My Father?]]" English, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Grey Cock" is a 16th century Child Ballad [Child 248, Roud 179] of the supernatural night-visiting type, AKA "The Lover's Ghost." It takes its name from the relating of two lovers disturbed by the early crowing of a cock. The first two stanzas go: | |||
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'''THE GREY COCK'''. English, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Grey Cock" is a 16th century Child Ballad [Child 248, Roud 179] of the supernatural night-visiting type, AKA "The Lover's Ghost." It takes its name from the relating of two lovers disturbed by the early crowing of a cock. The first two stanzas go: | |||
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'''I must be going, no longer staying,''<br> | '''I must be going, no longer staying,''<br> | ||
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''My darling dear, do you lie alone.''<br> | ''My darling dear, do you lie alone.''<br> | ||
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
|f_source_for_notated_version=Elliot & Kay ('''Calliope'''), 1788; p. 121. | |||
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|f_recorded_sources=Shanachie Records, Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - "Summer Solstice" (1971). Pyewackett - "The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret." | |||
|f_see_also_listing=See entry at Mainly Norfolk [https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thegreycock.html]<br> | |||
See entry at Mainly Norfolk [https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thegreycock.html]<br> | |||
Read a Mudcat thread on the song [https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=18357]<br> | Read a Mudcat thread on the song [https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=18357]<br> | ||
See/hear Vic Gammon's deep analysis of the tune family in his presentation "Crowing Cocks and Melodic Ghosts" from an October, 2020, Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs Conference [https://www.academia.edu/video/kbPpN1?t=30]<br> | |||
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Latest revision as of 01:21, 7 August 2023
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THE GREY COCK. AKA and see "Saw You My Father?" English, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Grey Cock" is a 16th century Child Ballad [Child 248, Roud 179] of the supernatural night-visiting type, AKA "The Lover's Ghost." It takes its name from the relating of two lovers disturbed by the early crowing of a cock. The first two stanzas go:
'I must be going, no longer staying,
The burning Thames I have to cross;
I will be guided without a stumble,
Into the arms I love the best.
And when he came to his true love's window,
He knelt down gently all on a stone;
And it's through the pane he has whispered slowly,
My darling dear, do you lie alone.
