Jack Williams - Revision history

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	* Ballad sheets containing Jack Williams [the boatman / boatswain] from the [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/regsrch.pl?recnums=19465:25440:28775:39392:43128:44418&index=1&db=ballads Bodleian Library].		* Ballad sheets containing Jack Williams [the boatman / boatswain] from the [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/regsrch.pl?recnums=19465:25440:28775:39392:43128:44418&index=1&db=ballads Bodleian Library].

			* [http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2213:1.lincoln 'Jack Williams' in 'The Star Song Book', New York: R. Marsh, 1857]

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	(Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words pp.1494-1495 / Folk Tunes p.1641)		(Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words pp.1494-1495 / Folk Tunes p.1641)



			* See http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=72295 for North American versions.

			* Ballad sheets containing Jack Williams [the boatman / boatswain] from the [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/regsrch.pl?recnums=19465:25440:28775:39392:43128:44418&index=1&db=ballads Bodleian Library].




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	#But if ever I gain my liberty,<br>‘Tis a solemn vow I'll make, <br>To shun all woman’s company,<br>For my false lover’s sake.<br>		#But if ever I gain my liberty,<br>‘Tis a solemn vow I'll make, <br>To shun all woman’s company,<br>For my false lover’s sake.<br>
	#The ‘sizes being over<br>And hanged I thought to be<br>But I burst from the prison walls, <br>And gained my liberty.		#The ‘sizes being over<br>And hanged I thought to be<br>But I burst from the prison walls, <br>And gained my liberty.


	Collected by [[Cecil Sharp]] from Mrs [[Elizabeth Smitherd]], [[Tewkesbury]], [[Gloucestershire]], 11 April 1908.		Collected by [[Cecil Sharp]] from Mrs [[Elizabeth Smitherd]], [[Tewkesbury]], [[Gloucestershire]], 11 April 1908.

	(Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words pp.1494-1495 / Folk Tunes p.1641)		(Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words pp.1494-1495 / Folk Tunes p.1641)


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Andyturner: Version of Roud 1906 from Mrs Smitherd

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Version of Roud 1906 from Mrs Smitherd

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'''Jack Williams'''

[[Roud 1906]]

#I am a boatman by my trade, And a waterman also Through keeping of such company I brought myself to woe. 
#I went a-robbing night and day, To keep Ena fine and gay And what I got I valued not, I took to her straightway. 
#Till at length to Newgate I got brought, Bound down in iron strong, With the rattling chains all round my legs, She longed to hear them on. 
#I wrote a letter to my love, Some comfort for to find, But instead of proving a friend to me She proved to me unkind. 
#She in a scornful manner wrote I'll shun their company; So just as you've made your bed, young man, Down on it you must lay. 
#I thought these words were very hard When I spent all my store, To think she had no more regard When I was low and poor. 
#But if ever I gain my liberty, ‘Tis a solemn vow I'll make, To shun all woman’s company, For my false lover’s sake. 
#The ‘sizes being over And hanged I thought to be But I burst from the prison walls, And gained my liberty.

Collected by [[Cecil Sharp]] from Mrs [[Elizabeth Smitherd]], [[Tewkesbury]], [[Gloucestershire]], 11 April 1908.

(Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words pp.1494-1495 / Folk Tunes p.1641)