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Mackenzie Urfey Thomson Cecil Sharp George Petrie Hegarty 1714 1855 1975
Blow the Candle Out (Roud No. 368) - Sung by Martin Howley of Fanore, north west County Clare, Ireland. Recorded by Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzie in July 1975. Liner Notes: Usually associated with The London 'Prentice, which appeared in print in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy in 1714, the plot of this song has surfaced in various guises, including the Scots song She Raise and Loot Me In, which was included twenty years later in William Thomson's Orpheus Caladonius. A song on a similar theme, but giving the woman as an enthusiastic participant rather than a victim, was taken down by Cecil Sharp from a singer in Meshaw, Devon. Petrie described it as 'a very objectionable street ballad which appears to have had a very extensive popularity in the Munster counties during the latter half of the last (18th) century'. Martin learned the song from a Travelling woman named Hegarty. "She was known as 'Mrs Stotered' because she was fond of the drink and used to say "I'm stotered" (from stocious - drunk). Ref: Ancient Music of Ireland, George Petrie, Dublin University Press 1855. Song transcription: And I came to my true love's window To hear her mournful pain; She arose up gently from her nap To let her true lover in. "I wouldn't wish it for five guineas love, If they would find it out, So hold me in your arms 'Til I blow the candle out." "And your father and your mammy In yonder bed do lie, Embracing one another, And why not you and I; Embracing one another love, And that without a doubt", And I took her in my arms And I blew the candle out. Sure, the eighth month was over, All but one day, My love, he wrote me a letter Saying he was going away; My love he wrote me a letter, And that without a doubt, That he never would return again For to blow the candle out. And come all ye pretty fair maids, A warning take by me, Never let those false young men An inch above your knee; For they'll kiss you and they'll court you Until your time be out, They shall leave you where my love left me When he blew the candle out.
Alfred Deller Henry Purcell Thomas Urfey
Video footage of Deller performing Purcell's setting of a text by Thomas d'Urfey. Link to My Alfred Deller playlist: (http•••) From rosy bow'rs where sleeps the god of Love, Hither, ye little waiting Cupids, fly: Teach me in soft, melodious songs to move, With tender passion, my heart's darling joy. Ah! let the soul of music tune my voice, To win dear Strephon, who my soul enjoys. Or if more influencing Is to be brisk and airy, With a step and a bound, And a frisk from the ground, I will trip like any fairy. As once on Ida dancing, Were three celestial bodies, With an air and a face, And a shape, and a grace, Let me charm like Beauty's goddess. Ah! 'tis all in vain, Death and despair must end the fatal pain, Cold despair, disguis'd, like snow and rain, Falls on my breast! Bleak winds in tempests blow, My veins all shiver and my fingers glow, My pulse beats a dead march for lost repose, And to a solid lump of ice, my poor fond heart is froze. Or say, ye Pow'rs, my peace to crown, Shall I thaw myself or drown? Amongst the foaming billows, Increasing all with tears I shed, On beds of ooze and crystal pillows, Lay down my lovesick head. Say, say, ye Pow'rs, my peace to crown, Shall I thaw myself or drown? No, I'll straight run mad, That soon my heart will warm; When once the sense is fled, Love has no pow'r to charm. Wild thro' the woods I'll fly, Robes, locks shall thus be tore; A thousand deaths I'll die Ere thus in vain adore.
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