“Nothing At All”
Description
The singer goes with his daddy to court Kate. He and she are too shy to speak at meeting, or proposal, or answering the parson at the wedding. The problem disappears within a week of the wedding and they offer their assurance to other young folks.
Notes
Broadside Bodleian Firth b.25(271) is the basis for the description: IRRCinnamond02 ends with the "love, honor, obey" at the wedding coming to "nothing at all."
Broadside LOCSinging sb30352a: H. De Marsan dating per _Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song_ by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
Cross references
- cf. "Vilikens and his Dinah (William and Dinah) [Laws M31A/B]" (tune & meter used in IRRCinnamond02) and references there
- cf. "Things I Don't Like to See" (tune according to broadside NLScotland, L.C.1269(152a))
Broadsides
- Bodleian, Firth b.25(271), "Nothing At All" ("In Derry Down Dale, when I wanted a mate"), J. Ferraby (Hull), 1803-1838; also Harding B 28(233), Harding B 25(1382)[many illegible words], "Nothing At All"
- LOCSinging, sb30352a, "Nothing At all," H. De Marsan (New York), 1864-1878
- NLScotland, L.C.1269(152a), "Nothing At All," Poet's Box (Glasgow), 1855
Recordings
- Robert Cinnamond, "Derry Down Dale" (on IRRCinnamond02)
References
- Roud #1607
- BI, RcNoAtAl