Away Away O'er the Boundless Deep (Buccaneer's Bride)

DESCRIPTION: The buccanier wakes his Scottish bride and they set sail for "the spicy isles." "My gallant band ... guard thee." He tells her not to weep for home. He will give her "a thousand gems"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1857 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: homesickness love home parting travel sea ship Scotland nonballad husband wife sailor pirate
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 203, "Away Away O'er the Boundless Deep (Buccaneer's Bride)" (1 text plus a fragment)
ADDITIONAL: _Wehman's Collection of 102 Songs No. 11_, (New York: Henry J Wehman, 1886 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")), p. 19, "Buccanier's Bride" ("Away! away! o'er the boundless deep, We'll merrily, merrily roam") (1 text)
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NOTES [141 words]: Frank-JollySailorsBold, p. 413, speculates that "Away Away O'er the Boundless Deep" is "derived from 'Away! Away! We Bound o'er the Deep,' written and composed by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)." (see Levy 114.018, "Away! Away We Bound O'er the Deep," Dubois & Stodart, New York, n.d. @ https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/114/018 ). That may be, but the two songs share only words from the title and first line, assuming the current song is well represented by the Wehman's text.
The description is based on the Wehman's text. As Frank points out, his texts' "variations ... suggest oral transmission." So, for example, The second and third Wehman lines -- "Come, my bride, break the mermaid's sleep, With a song of the highland home" -- becomes Frank's "Come man your brake while the mermaid sleeps With a song of your island home." - BS
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