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Brewster: Ballads and Songs of Indiana 79
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LORD LOVEL
(Child, No. 75)
"Lord Lovel" is one of the best-known ballads in Indiana, though both "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" and "Barbara Allen" have yielded more texts to the present collection. It was also the first traditional ballad to be contributed. Seven variants have been recovered, all of them belonging to Child B. In Indiana B, however, the vow of Lord Lovel to the dead Nancy Belle shows a closer relationship to the D version of Child.
American texts are to be found in Barry, No. 14; Barry, Eckstonn, and Smyth, p. 139; Belden, No. 6; Brown, p. 9; Campbell and Sharp, No. 18; Cox, p. 78; Davis, p. 240 (fifteen variants) and p. 573 (tunes); Hudson, Folksongs, p. 90; Jones, p. 301; Journal, XVIII, 291; XIX, 283; XXIV, 337 (Irish air); XXVIII, 199; XXIX, 160; XXXV, 343; McGill, p. 9; Pound, p. 4; Sandburg, p. 70; Scarborough, p. 55; Scarborough, Song Catcher, p. 99; Shearin and Combs, p. 8; Shoemaker, p. 124; Smith, p. 121; Randolph, Ozark Mountain Folks, p. 193; Smith and Rufty, American Anthology, p. 20; JFSS, II, 289; III, 64; Gardner, Folklore from the Scoharie Hills, p. 203; Cox, Traditional Ballads, pp. 24, 26. Irish text and air: BFSSNE, I, 5.
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"Lord Lovell." Contributed by Mrs. Olevia A. Montgomery, of Evans-ville, Indiana. Vanderburg County. February 21, 1935.
1. Lord Lovell stood at the new castle gate,
Combing his milk-white steed, When out stepped fair Lady Nancy Bell
To wish her lover God's speed, speed, speed, To wish her lover God's speed.
2. "O where are you going, Lord Lovell?" she cried;
"O where are you going ?" said she. "I'm going, my fair Lady Nancy Bell,
Strange countries for to see, see, see, Strange countries for to see." |
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