Down in Yonder Valley
Thanks to Andy Turner for posting a link to this Broadside for this week's #TradSongtues theme of #Spring.
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/10000/07401.gif
I can't tell if I love or hate the way this song is so full of classic ballad tropes.
I took the liberty of changing the last verse, as it just seems a terrible ending and doesn't even rhyme. My guess is that this ballad, from the early 1800s was written on the theme of Nancy having a sailor love who goes away to sea in earlier 1700s ballads.
The adjacent ballad to this one, 'Banks of Sweet Mossen' is discussed here:
https://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/week-34-the-banks-of-sweet-mossen/
It would be nice if #Cambridge would hurry up and digitize the Madden Collection, so we can access the possibly earlier version of this ballad:
https://microformguides.gale.com/3033000
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