Elsie Marley

X: 5
T:Elsie Marley
M:6/8
L:1/8
Z:Geoff Wright <brackenriggband:hotmail.com> tradtunes 2002-5-4
N:John Adams (Village Music Project) writes:
N:The thing that ties Elsie Marley to Northumbria is its known history
N:as stated in Bruce and Stokoe's Northumbrian Minstrelsy.
N:Nine verses of the song are followed by the information that Elsie
N:Marley was an innkeepers wife in Chester Le Street. Apparently she
N:was drowned in 1768 but the song about an incident in her eventful
N:life was still popular enough to be included in Ritson's 'Bishopric
N:Garland' of 1784.
N:If it wasn't for that recorded fact the tune could well have
N:originated in another place,
K:G
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Bc"G"B GBd|gag gdB|"C"cac Bg"G"B|"F"A2=f fcA:|
|:B2"G"c d2d|def g2d|B2c dcB|"F"A2B cBA|
B2"G"c d2d|efg dcB|"C"cac Bg"G"B|"F"A2=f fcA:|

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/jig/Elsie_Marley_1/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kennaquhair.com/tradtunes2/0093
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/tradtunes/ElsieMarley_1/0000

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