Saturday, November 19, 2011

We'll Go No More A-Roving/the Wise Maid

The audio was recorded last Saturday night, November 12, 2011 at the Littlest Bar, Boston, Massachusetts - one of the best sessions I've ever been to - and the photos are a compilation of some of the favorites I've taken in the past year and a half, in various sessions in Boston and on Martha's Vineyard.



Sunday November 20 - I discovered today that the first tune is called The Jolly Beggar Man.

There was a jolly beggarman
Came tripping o'er the plain
He came unto a farmer's door
A lodging for to gain
The farmer's daughter she came down
And viewed him cheek and chin
She says "He is a handsome man
I pray you take him in"

We'll go no more a roving
A roving in the night
We'll go no more a roving
Let the moon shine so bright
We'll go no more a roving

He would not lie within the barn
Nor yet within the byre
But he would in the corner lie
Down by the kitchen fire
O then the beggar's bed was made
Of good clean sheets and hay
And down beside the kitchen fire
The jolly beggar lay

We'll go no more a roving
A roving in the night
We'll go no more a roving
Let the moon shine so bright
We'll go no more a roving

The farmer's daughter she got up
To bolt the kitchen door
And there she saw the beggar
Standing naked on the floor
He took the daughter in his arms
And to the bed he ran
Kind sir, she says, be easy now
You'll waken our goodman

We'll go no more a roving
A roving in the night
We'll go no more a roving
Let the moon shine so bright
We'll go no more a roving

Now you are no beggar
You are some gentleman
For you have stolen my maidenhead
And I am quite undone
I am no lord, I am no squire
Of beggars I be one
And beggars they be robbers all
So you're quite undone

We'll go no more a roving
A roving in the night
We'll go no more a roving
Let the moon shine so bright
We'll go no more a roving

7 comments:

  1. Great Music lovely pic's there, Sara.
    The older name for that reel The Wise Maid was..
    All around the world.
    Great Stuff !
    jim,,,

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  2. Thanks, Jim. Last week at Littlest was the best - a particular configuration of people that made the place rock - as you would say, "A mighty session." :-) This clip is just the tip of the iceberg.

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  3. Hot damn! We sure do have some fun, don't we? The picture of Seany says it all at 3:32.

    --Levi, aka "the Fiddlin' Fool"

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  4. Oh yeah - Sean at 3:32 tells the whole story :-)

    Hope to see you soon.

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  5. Lovely stuff Sara just the right think to look at to remember there's life outside report-writing...

    Alex

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  6. I guess I can deal with not being included in the Tinker's pictures. Good singing by Arnie.

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  7. Hey Alex - time to get your head out of those reports and pick up your fiddle!

    Stu - if only I could have included every photo I wanted to. There will be many more slide shows to come, God willing.

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