HAM/05/32/20	The Shannon Side
HAM-02-233.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-01-686.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
HAM-05-054.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-055.gif	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-233.gif	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[page numbered by, printed in the top right corner:] 25
[above title:] Key signature of 1 sharp better?
[left of title:] Dorian 517
[title:] '/ Shermont
         <           - Side '
          \ ?Shannon?
[right of title:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
[to left of penultimate bar, with a leader line to the second note:] also Gb [a flat sign]
[after tune:] or ending:- [then two bars]
[after the alternative ending:] Words D VII p 67

HAM-01-686.gif	Hammond's field notes - words
[on page hand-numbered in top right corner:] 67.
[above and left of title:] Tune 517
[above title:] D.788
[title:] Fragment of 'Shannon Side''
[right of title:] Russell
Where are you going, my prett maid, where are you going this morn
What makes you rise so early, where are you going so soon
With her cheeks like blooming roses the pretty maid replied
I am going to milk my father's cows down by the sheermount
[above the last word is:] Shurmont
(Shannon) side.

In walking along by the side of her I stole a milking Kiss
Reware of such impudence, what do you mean by this
The ground being so unlevel her foot it chanced to slide
We both fell down together down by the sheermount side?

If you will not marry me, pray tell to me your name
That when my little babe is born I may call it the same
My name is Capt Thunderbolt that name I've never denied
I have 500 seamen bold ploughing the ocean wide

HAM-05-054.gif	Purslow's transcription - tune
[left of title:] 517.
[title:] The Shannon Side.
[below and right of title, on a label:] D788
[right of the label:] Mrs. Russell, Upwey
[at end of tune, initialled:] FEP
[below tune, on extra stave, in front of two extra bars:] or ends:-

HAM-05-055.gif	Purslow's transcription - words
THE SHANNON SIDE.
[belo title, in hand on a label:] D788
Note-book D.VII. p.67. 	Mrs. Marina Russell,
				Upwey, Dorset.
				Jan/Feb. 1907.

Where are you going, my pretty maid, where are you going this morn?
What makes you rise so early, where are you going so soon?
With her cheeks like blooming roses the pretty maid replied,
"I am going to milk my father's cows down by the sheermount side." _

In walking along by the side of her I stole a milking kiss,
"Beware of such impudenoe, what do you mean by this?"
The ground being so unlevel her foot it chanced to slide,
We both fell down together down by the sheermount side.

If you will not marry me pray tell to me your name,
That when my little babe is born I may call it the same,
"My name is Captain Thunderbolt that name I've never denied,
I have five hundred seamen bold ploughing the ocean wide."
           - o - o - o - o - o -

If, as Hammond surmises, this is indeed "The Shannon Side" then
the third verse does not belong. It is part of a version of "Down
by the Riverside" called "captain Thunderbolt". It is strange that
in a version of "The Shannon Side" collected earlier (8.55) the
singer interpolated a verse from "The Jovial Tinker" at this point.
					F.E.P.
[in hand:]
Since writing the above I have actually come across a
broadside in the British Museum which includes the
"Capt. Thunderbolt" verses in "The Shannon Side"
[initialled:] FEP

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