From James Beale

Collected by Cecil Sharp, Warehorne, 23rd September 1908

Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words CJS2/9/1783, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1927

Roud 11, Child 112

Cecil Sharp gave this song the title ‘The Baffled Knight’, the generic name used by F.J. Child and other folk song scholars. It is extremely unlikely that James Beale would have recognised this name, particularly as, in common with other versions collected from oral tradition, the male protagonist is not a knight, but a shepherd’s son. He more likely called the song ‘Stroll away the morning dew’.

In her collection The Crystal Spring, Maud Karpeles called the song ‘Blow away the morning dew’, having replaced “Stroll away…” in the chorus with the more usual “Blow away…”. She also omitted James Beale’s final verse, replacing it with the somewhat less problematic

My father’s got a flower,
It’s called Marigold;
And if you will not when you can
You shall not when you would.