X:620040
T:GB/6b/4 The Banks of Green Willow
T:Version 1 of 2
C:Sung by Mr. & Mrs. Cranstone, Billingshurst,  Sussex, June 1907
C:Collected by GSK Butterworth
F:http://archives.vwml.org/record/GB/6b/4
Z:Transcribed by Simon Furey and Lewis Jones
L:1/8
M:3/4
Q:"(Editorial suggestion)" 1/4=100
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w: Oh it's of a young sea cap-*tain lived_ by the sea-side_ O, And he
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w: cour-ted a far-mer's daugh-*ter and he made her his bride_ O.
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W:
W: 1. Oh it’s of a young sea-captain
W: Lived by the seaside O
W: And he courted a farmer's daughter
W: And he made her his bride O.
W: 
W: 2. "Go and fetch some of your father's gold,
W: Likewise your mother's money,
W: And you shall sail along with me
W: And I'll make you my honey."
W: 
W: 3. She fetched him some of her father's gold,
W: Likewise her mother's money
W: And she did sail along with him
W: To the Banks of Green Willow.
W: 
W: 4. They had not been aboard ship
W: Six months or so many
W: Before she wanted momen's help
W: And she couldn't get any.
W: 
W: 5. "Pray what is your woman's help?
W: Cannot I do it for thee?"
W: "No, you can't do it for me,
W: For love nor for money."
W: 
W: 
W: 6. "Come bind a napkin round my head,
W: Come bind it so softly,
W: And then throw me overboard
W: Both me and my baby."
W: 
W: 7. So he bound a napkin round her head,
W: He bound it so softly,
W: And then he throwed her overboard
W: Both she and her baby.
W: 
W: 8. "O look, you boys, O look you there,
W: O see how she quivers.
W: She swam till she came
W: To the Banks of Green Willow.
W: 
W: 9. O my love shall have a coffin made
W: Lined with gold and bright silver
W: And she shall be buried
W: On the Banks of Green Willow.
W: 
W: 10. Come you toll the bell, come toll the bell,
W: Come you toll it so softly,
W: For it's my true love that is dead and gone,
W: Whom I loved so dearly."
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%%text Editorial note: Version 1 will be found at GB/6b/27.
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%%text Two further versions of this song are discussed at GB/6b/26  and given at GB/6b/28 and GB/6b/29.
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%%text However, one is incomplete and the other Scottish; neither was produced by Butterworth or Jekyll.
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