Again I Am a Bachelor I Lived With My

Championship: The Foggy, Foggy Dew
AUTHOR: unknown
CATEGORY: Traditional, Public Domain
KEYWORDS:courtship, seduction, weaving, pregnancy, bastard
Earliest PRINTED OR RECORDED REFERENCE: 1689 (broadside, EngBdsdBA Pepys five.250)

The foggy dew exists in two master versions, The Foggy Dew about the backwash of the Easter Rebellion, an armed insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week 1916. The second version, the more popular one is known as The Foggy, Foggy Dew. In The Foggy, Foggy Dew a girl has been wooed by a immature man, without apparent success, for some months. I dark, in bully distress, she comes into his bedroom and tells him that she is afraid of 'the foggy dew' (in some songs, 'the bugaboo'). The young man takes her into bed with him. Next morn she regrets this, but the young man comforts her by saying that the crusade of her fear is gone.

Various explanations of the phrase 'the foggy dew' accept been put forrad, the most detailed beingness that given by James Reeves in 'The Idiom of the People', 1958, pp. 45-57. He concludes that 'foggy dew' signifies the daughter's impulse to seek the human's condolement. [Revised from Susannes Folksong-Notizen]

OTHER TITLES AND VARIATIONS:

• When I Was a Available
• The Weaver
• The Bugaboo

RECORDINGS: (mp3'due south available through Amazon.com)

• Bob Atcher, [easyazon_link asin="B0051WEG7A" locale="The states" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-20″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]Foggy Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
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• A. L. Lloyd, [easyazon_link asin="B007PUG5BQ" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-20″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]The Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
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• Doug Wallin, [easyazon_link asin="B000SEZ652″ locale="Us" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-20″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
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Foggy, Foggy Dew

When I was a bachelor, I lived all solitary,
I worked at the weaver's merchandise.
And the merely, but thing that I did that was wrong
Was to woo a fair young maid.
I wooed her in the wintertime, and part of the summer too.
And the merely, only affair that I did that was wrong
Was to continue her from the foggy, foggy dew.

One night she knelt close by my side
When I was fast asleep.
She threw her arms around my neck
And so began to weep.
She wept, she cried, she tore her hair, ah, me, what could I exercise?
So all nighttime long I held her in my artillery
Just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

Once more I'm a bachelor, I live with my son,
We work at the weaver's trade.
And every unmarried fourth dimension I look into his eyes,
He reminds me of the fair young maid.
He reminds me of the winter, and function of the summer too,
And the many, many times that I held her in my arms,
Just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

SOURCES:

• Traditional Carol Index
• Digital Tradition—333, FOGGYDEW* FOGGDEW2 FOGGDEW5 BOGLEBO*
• Roud #558
• Laws: O3 American Balladry from British Broadsides
  (G. Malcolm Laws, Jr.) The American Folklore Society 1957

• Folk Song Alphabetize: A Comprehensive Guide to the Florence E. Brunnings Collection, Florence E. Brunnings, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London 1981—Amazon Books
• Land Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music, Guthrie T. Meade, Jr. with Dick Spottswood and Douglas Due south. Meade, Southern Folklife Collection, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, NC 2002—Amazon Books

SONGBOOKS:

• The American Songbag
  (Carl Sandburg) Harcourt, Caryatid, and Company 1927 —Amazon Books
• Folk Song Encyclopedia (Jerry Silverman) Hal Leonard 1975
• The Folk Songs of N America (in the English language Language) (Alan Lomax) Doubleday and Company 1960 —Amazon Books
• Folksinger's Wordbook(Fred and Irwin Silber) Music Sales Corporation 1973
• Rise Up and Sing!: The Grouping Singing Songbook (Peter Claret and Annie Patterson) A Sing Out! 2004, original 1988

Discover: I'm not the best guitar player or vocalist, just no i loves these songs more I do. The tune and lyrics are in the public domain unless otherwise noted. The recording © copyright 2013 by Stephen Griffith and may be used by permission of the copyright holder. The variation of the song I'one thousand posting is the version I perform and is non exactly replicating the sources cited, only is always in the aforementioned vocal family. If anyone has more than details near this song, or believes I've stated something in fault, please let me know. I'k also open to suggestions to improve the site. Thank you.sgg

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