“Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea”
Description
Willie tells Maggie he is going to sea and they agree to be true. In some seaport he writes "a girl named Flora bore down on me Fare you well, Maggie darling, across the blue sea.... on me don't depend." She writes "Fare you well, Willie darling...."
Supplemental text
Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea
Partial text(s)
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From Kenneth Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, Volume II,
pp. 443-444. Sung by Clara Stevens, Bellburns, August 1959.
Come all yo good people, I pray you'll attend
To a sad lamentation that has happened to me
Concerning a fair maiden I thought would be my wife,
And I loved her so dearly as the threads of my life.
Long time we had courted in the sweet bonds of love,
Till at length we went roving in her father's green grove.
I said, "Handsome Maggie, I am going to sea,
And I hope, Maggie darling, you will prove true to me."
(6 additional stanzas)
Notes
See Lehr/Best 49, "Heave Away!" - BS
Cross references
- cf. "Heave Away" (some words and theme)
References
- Peacock, pp. 443-444, "Fare You Well, Maggie Darling, Across the Blue Sea" (1 text, 1 tune)
- ST Pea443 (Partial)
- Roud #6458
- BI, Pea443