Annotation:I heard a maid in Bedlam a-making sore complaint
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I HEARD A MAID IN BEDLAM A-MAKING SORE COMPLAINT. Irish, Air (2/4 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Hardiman (Irish Minstrelsy, I. 341) tells us that [about 1820] he heard a peasant girl, near Lough Conn, Co. Mayo, sing an English song to this air, beginning:--
'One morning very early, on morning in the spring,
I heard a maid in Bedlam most mournfully sing.'
This song is known in England also: I find a copy of it in a book of Elegant Extracts printed in London in the early part of last century: and another version has been recently given in the Journal of the Folk Song Soc. (London)--II. 93; where the English air is also given. But the air I give here is different, though it willk suit the English version of the song" (Joyce). See also "Maid in Bedlam" for British versions.
