{"id":1660,"date":"2020-03-11T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=1660"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T11:49:47","slug":"rose-of-allandale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/rose-of-allandale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of Allandale, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Sweet Rose of Allandale\/Allendale<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>Charles Jeffreys (1807-65)<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td> Samuel Nelson (1800-62)<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>1218<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall performers<\/strong><\/td>T.Harris, 1840<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Source Singers<\/strong>
Edward Franklin, 1907,Bucks, England
Mrs Parrott, 1923, Beds, England
Bell Duncan, 1929-35, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Maud Ewell, 1941 Virginia, USA
Arthur Giles, 1959, Bucks, England
Miss Cook, 1960s\/70s, Yorkshire, England
Charles Green, 1971, Yorkshire, England
Copper Family, 1976,Sussex, England
Fred Jordan, 1990, Shropshire, England
Modern Performances<\/strong>
Nic Jones, and many more: see Mainly Norfolk <\/a>for selected English examples. Widely sung in Irish traditional music too!
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The morn was fair, the skies were clear, \nNo breath came o'er the sea,\nWhen Mary left her highland cot\nAnd wander'd forth with me\nTho' flowers deck'd the mountains side\nAnd fragrance fill'd the vale\nBy far the sweetest flower there\nWas the Rose of Allandale\n\nWas the Rose of Allandale\nThe Rose of Allandale\nBy far the sweetest flower there\nWas the Rose of Allandale<\/em>\n\nWhere'er I wander east or west\nThough fate began to lour\nA solace still was she to me\nIn sorrow's lonely hour\nWhen tempests lashed our gallant barque\nAnd rent her shiv'ring sail\nOne maiden form withstood the storm\nTwas the rose of Allandale\n\nAnd when my fever'd lips were parch'd\nOn Afric's burning sands\nShe whisper'd hopes of happiness\nAnd tales of distant land\nMy life had been a wilderness\nUnblest by fortunes gale\nHad fate not linked my lot to her\nThe Rose of Allandale <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
A song which emerged from the early 19th century stage repertoire, which would now widely be considered as “traditional\u201d, a “folksong”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Music Halls, emerged from the early 18th-century millieu of tavern singing rooms, supper clubs etc, where then new popular songs and older songs would be sung for entertainment. The best record we have of this period are perhaps the diaries of Charles Rice, who records that The Rose of Allendale<\/em> featured in the repertoire of a singer called Mr Tom Harris. The diaries don’t tell us much about Tom other than that he appears regularly singing in tavern singing rooms throughout 1840.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Modern versions are often derived from the version sung by the Copper family – which varies only slightly from the original version given above. The song was originally written by Charles Jeffreys (1807-65) and Samuel Nelson (1800-62) at some point in the very late 1820s or very early 1830s, appearing in published form around 1831\/32:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Morning Post (London) Jan 14 1832<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The song, according to the notice above, was performed as part of the opera Rob Roy<\/em>, which seems to have first been staged in 1818. Early descriptions of the opera refer to several songs, but not to to the Rose of Allandale<\/em>, so it’s possible that the song may have been newly written and added in 1830 or 1831. For Jeffreys to have written a song that appeared in an 1818 opera he would have had to write it at the age of 11, possible but perhaps unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charles Jeffreys also wrote Jeannette’s Farewell to Jeannot<\/em> and Mary of Argyll<\/em>, two other songs which have proved popular with latter-day folk singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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