As I Roved Out

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Irish folk music abounds with songs about young maidens “giving” themselves to rakish men who then abandon them the next morning. But I said, I've lost my waistcoat, my watch chain and my purse! Says she, I've lost my maidenhead, and that's a darned sigh worse! Chorus With my too-run-ra, lilt-fa-laddy Lilt-fa-laddy, too-run-ray [6] Other recordings [ edit ]

I Roved Out / The Soldier and the Seventeen Come Sunday / As I Roved Out / The Soldier and the

This was a widely known song in England, and was also popular in Ireland and Scotland. It is one of those which earlier editors, such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, felt obliged to soften or rewrite for publication. It was also common on broadsides throughout the nineteenth century" But I’ll roll my lass all on the grass, let the wind blow high and low. James McDermott sings Let the Wind Blow High or Low Whether the words have double meanings or not, the couple end up in bed. The soldier makes the bed with her and sleeps with her after asking “lassie are you able?” The songs usually involve a young man – possibly a soldier, a sailor or even a nobleman – who sees a young girl while travelling through the countryside and manages to charm his way into her bed.The song contains several lines that can be taken in two ways. The girl says there’s plenty of oats for a horse to eat “if he’s able” and there’s plenty of wine for a soldier boy to drink “if he’s able”.

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There is another song called As I Roved Out by Andy Irvine of Planxty, which we also feature on Irish Music Daily. An earlier version was first printed on a broadside of around 1810 with the title Maid and the Soldier. Early broadside versions were sad songs focused on the abandonment of the girl by the young man. [3] Later broadside and traditional folk versions celebrate a sexual encounter. A censored version published by Baring-Gould and Sharp substitutes a proposal of marriage for the encounter.

Seventeen Come Sunday / As I Roved Out / The Soldier and the Maid (Roud 277; Laws O17; G/D 4:791; Henry H152, H793) Mainly Norfolk: English In Moore’s version it is very much the girl who makes things happen when she meets a young soldier. She invites him to her mother’s house in the middle of the night saying “devil ‘o one would hear us” – meaning, of course, that no one would hear them. One of the singers was a man called John Riley. Moore described him as a “travelling singer from the old tradition that has now died out – the kind of man who travelled around passing on stories and songs”.

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For love it is a funny thing, did you ever feel the pain? Walter Pardon sings Let the Wind Blow High or LowPlant owns more than 75% of Trolcharm Limited, according to Companies House filings in the UK. His three surviving children are directors of the business along with Plant. This song has been compared [ who?] to a song usually called "The Overgate" or "With My Roving Eye". In both songs the narrator has a chance meeting with a pretty girl, leading to a sexual encounter. And the songs may have similar nonsense refrains. However the details of the texts are so different that the Roud Folk Song Index classifies them separately. "The Overgate" is Roud Number 866. One well-known recording ends the account of the encounter with: