HAM/05/32/10	The Lads Of Sweet Newbury
HAM-02-230.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-01-682.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
HAM-05-033.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-034.gif	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-230.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[left of the title:] Aeolian  509
[title:] 'The Lads of sweet Newbury'
[right of the title:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
[bar 1 - alternative notes written on the stave]
[bar 5 - a leader line is drawn to a bar after the end of the tune, marked "var-iant"]
[bar 6 - a leader line is drawn to a bar below the tune, marked "variant"]
[bar 11-14 - a leader line is drawn to 4 bars below marked "variant", at the end of which is "an ending Mrs R seems to like"]
[below the tune:] Words D VII p 68

HAM-01-682.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
[the page is hand-numbered in the top right corner:] 63.
[above the title:] Tune 509  D.778.  Russell
[title:]Fragt. "Lads of sweet Newbury"
For the lads of sweet Newbury they are all roving blades
They take great delight in coourting fair maids
They will kiss then, they will court them & call them their own
And their own darlings are murmuring at home.

HAM-05-033.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
[the left of the title:] 509
[title:] D.778
[to the right of the title:] Mrs Russell, Upwey
[at the end of the tune proper, FEP adds a coda sign and:] or ends thus: [followed by 4 bars of ending]
[after the alternative ending:] an ending Mrs. R. seems to like. (H.E.D.H.) and [initialled] FEP

HAM-05-034.gif	Purslow's transcription - words
[above the title:]? THE HAPPY STRANGBRS.

[title:] THE LADS OF SWEET NEWBURY.
[in hand:] D778
Note-book D.VII. p.63. 	Mrs. Marina Russell,
				Upwey,_Dorset.
				Jan/*eb. 1907.
The lads of sweet Newbury they are all roving blades,
They take great delight_in courting fair maids,
They will kiss them, they will court them, they will call them their
And their own darlings are murmuring at home.                  own,

The above was all Mrs. Russell coule [sic] remember.
						F.E.P.
A broadside by Angus, (of      ) in Bod. 2806 c 18
contains the following, put into the mouth of the girl:-

"Sir, the lads of sweet Newry are all roving blades,
And take great delight in courting fair maids,
They kiss them, they press them, and call them their own,
And perhaps their own darlings lie mourning at home."

I suspect Mrs. Russell's tune is Irish, so it is possiblc
that the above fragment is part of The Happy Strangers which,
even on the Angus sheet is obviously of Irish origin.
						F.E.P.

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