Down By the Derwent Side

DESCRIPTION: The singer meets a girl going to tend her father's sheep "down by the Derwent side." She refuses to go with him. "In time my suit I fondly pressed to win her for my bride." She finally agrees
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1891 (Kidson-TraditionalTunes)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage shepherd
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North))
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Kidson-TraditionalTunes, pp. 151-152, "Down By the Derwent Side" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Anne Geddes Gilchrist, EFDSS Archives AGG/7/35, "Down By the Derwent Side," https://www.vwml.org/search?q=AGG/7/35&is=1 accessed 7/25/2023..
Anne Geddes Gilchrist, EFDSS Archives AGG/7/37, "Down By the Derwent Side," ahttps://www.vwml.org/search?q=AGG/7/37&is=1 accessed 7/25/2023.
Anne Geddes Gilchrist, EFDSS Archives AGG/7/38, "Down By the Derwent Side" https://www.vwml.org/search?q=%20AGG/7/38&is=1 accessed 7/24/2023. [one verse, almost entirely illegible]
Roud #1114
NOTES [54 words]: From his fragment Kidson considered this a local variant of "The Shannon Side" which "may be another instance of the alteration of the locality to suit local singers." The Kidson-TraditionalTunes verses are very close to the beginning of "Shannon Side" but the resolution added by Gilchrist's texts are entirely different. - BS
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