Category: Song

Mary Thompson

From Samuel Holdstock

Collected by Percy Grainger and Edith Lyttleton, Wittersham, 21st August 1909

Percy Grainger Collection PG/10/50, PG/15/2, PG/15/3; Folk Music Journal 2:5 (1974) pp.349-350

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PG-10-50 Mary ThompsonDownload

Writing to Percy Grainger on 10th May 1910, Edith Lyttleton noted that Mr Holdstock “was
quite clear that Amsterdon was the place and you will observe near Derbyshire. But I
suspect that he is easily muddled.” Also that in verse 7 he insisted that the words should
be “But still the smiling said to him”, not “But still she smiling said to him” (PG/15/1).

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Tarry Trowsers

From Mrs Powell

Collected by Francis Jekyll, Minster, Sheppey, August 1910

George Butterworth Manuscript Collection GB/7a/34, GB/5/9

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GB-7a-34 Tarry TrowsersDownload

Butterworth included this song in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society 4 (1913), p.327, alongside a version he had collected from Mrs Harriet Verrall in Sussex, and he printed Mrs Verrall’s words. His manuscript collection includes a sheet where both Mrs Powell and Mrs Verrall’s words are written out opposite each other (GB/5/9). Underneath the 2 verses given above, several additional verses are given, but these appear to be taken from a broadside printing – possibly the sheet included in the Frank Kidson Broadside Collection (FK/15/3/1).

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