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'''THE GREY COCK'''. English, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "The Grey Cock" is a Child Ballad [Child 248, Roud 179] of the supernatural night-visiting type, AKA "The Lover's Ghost." | '''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> | |||
''The burning Thames I have to cross;''<br> | |||
''I will be guided without a stumble,''<br> | |||
''Into the arms I love the best.''<br> | |||
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''And when he came to his true love's window,''<br> | |||
''He knelt down gently all on a stone;''<br> | |||
''And it's through the pane he has whispered slowly,''<br> | |||
''My darling dear, do you lie alone.''<br> | |||
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== Additional notes == | == Additional notes == | ||
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<font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - | <font color=red>''Source for notated version''</font>: - Elliot & Kay ('''Calliope'''), 1788; p. 121. | ||
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<font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - | <font color=red>''Recorded sources'': </font> <font color=teal> - Shanachie Records, Tim Hart & Maddy Prior - "Summer Solstice" (1971). Pyewackett - "The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret." </font> | ||
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See also listing at: | See also listing at: | ||
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> | |||
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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:
'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.