HAM/05/32/38	The Cruel Mother
HAM-02-239.gif 	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-01-695.gif 	Hammond's field notes - words
HAM-05-095.gif 	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-096.gif 	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-239.gif 	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[page printed with, top right:] 37
[a curious start - a title:] 'The cruel Mother' [written on a stave, with a G clef at the left, below the number:] 535
[above this stave, centre:] "All alone and m lonely" [the "m" is indistinct]
[and in the right margin:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
[below the first stave, at the left margin of the next stave:] Dorian
[at the left of this stave, a G clef and a key sig. for G (i.e. a # on the top line) and Hammond's annoying time sig of a C with a short bar nearly connecting the open arms of the C - which probably accounts for most discrepancies between my interpretation of time signatures and those of Purslow - PJH]
[then, crossed out, an anacrusis crotchet F, bar line and bar of G G B2 F2 (L=1/8)]
[after a left (opening) square bracket, there is a G clef and key sig. for G, and Hammond's annoyingly indiscrimate time sig, halfway between C| and C. Purslow and I begin our tune transcriptions at this point - PJH]
[bar 6 then has a leader line to a spare bar beneathe the main tune, with along-line text:] And tis [leading to a partial bar for the last two notes of bar 6, headed:] also
[below last stave, indistinctly:] Words .DVII. p76 [could be 96]

HAM-01-695.gif 	Hammond's field notes - words
[page numbered, top right:] 76..
[about half-way down:
[opposite the words, on verso leaf:]
See Child p. 37. No. 20 small Edn. & Note.
& F.S.J..p. 106. Vol. 2.  109.
Fuller words D VIII p.32.
[on recto:]
[above and left of title:] Tune 535
[title:] Fragt of "[inserted] the
[and then:] Cruel Mother?" D806. Russell
She pressed herself against the wall
 All alone & so lonely (or All alone & so lone O!)
And there she had two pretty babes born
 All down by the greenwood side O!

O! Mother, O! Mother if these were mine'
 All alone &c
I would dress them in silk so fine
 And tis down by &c
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HAM-05-095.gif 	Purslow's transcription - tune
[left of title:] 565.
[title:] The Cruel Mother.
[below the right end of title, on a sticky label:] D.806
[right of title:] Mrs. Russell, Upwey/
[bar 6, last two notes, a leader line down to otherwise empty stave, with leading text:] also [and two notes]
[initialled, bottom right:] FEP

HAM-05-096.gif 	Purslow's transcription - words
THE CRUEL MOTHER.
[below title, in hand:] D806
[below which:] Note-book D.VII. p.76.
[and, on the right:]
Mrs. Marina Russell,
Upwey, Dorset.
Jan/Feb. 1907.

She pressed herself against the wall,
 All alone and so lonely, (or: All alone and so lone O!)
And there she had two pretty babes born,
 All down by the greenwood side O!

O mother, O! mother, if these were mine,
 All alone &c.
I would dress them in silk so fine.
 And 'tis down by &c.

- o - o - o -

See Child p.37. No.20 small edn. and note.
And F.S.J. p.146 Vol 2  109.      (H.E.D.H.)

[This material prepared by P J Headford, Nov 2010]