“The Gray Mare”

Description

The miller gains Kate's love and is offered a large dowry. He also demands her father's gray mare. The father turns him out of the house for asking too much. When he later meets Kate, she tells him she wants no part of the man who preferred a mare to her

Broadsides

• Bodleian, Harding B 28(45), "The Farmer's Grey Mare" ("Young Roger the miller, went a courting of late"), W. Armstrong (Liverpool), 1820-1824; also Harding B 25(1647), "Roger the Miller"; Harding B 11(1435), Harding B 11(1434), "Grey Mare"; Harding B 25(1645), 2806 c.16(50), "Roger the Miller and the Grey Mare"; Harding B 16(316b), Firth c.18(216), "Young Roger and the Gray Mare"; Harding B 11(4390), "Young Roger and the Grey Mare "

Recordings

• Bob Atcher, "Young Rogers the Miller" (Columbia 20483, 1948)
• Stanley McDonald, "Roger the Miller" (on Miramichi1)

References

1. Laws P8, "The Gray Mare"
2. Belden, pp. 235-236, "The Gray Mare" (1 text plus mention of 1 more)
3. Eddy 63, "Young Rogers, The Miller" (1 text, 1 tune)
4. Gardner/Chickering 160, "My Father's Gray Mare" (1 text)
5. Greenleaf/Mansfield 26, "Rogers the Miller" (1 text)
6. Peacock, pp. 278-279, "The Gray Mare" (1 text, 1 tune)
7. Ives-NewBrunswick, pp. 53-56, "Roger the Miller" (1 text, 1 tune)
8. Creighton-SNewBrunswick 79, "Roger the Miller" (1 text, 1 tune)
9. Manny/Wilson 89, "Roger the Miller" (1 text, 1 tune)
10. Botkin-SoFolklr, p. 718, "Young Rogers the Miller" (1 text, 1 tune)
11. SHenry H90, pp. 365-366, "The Grey Mare" (1 text, 1 tune)
12. Kennedy 144, "Young Roger Esquire" (1 text, 1 tune)
13. LPound-ABS, 34, p. 80, "My Father's Gray Mare" (1 text)
14. Flanders/Brown, pp. 62-64, "Gay Jemmie, The Miller" (1 text, 1 tune)
15. DT 339, GREYMARE*
16. Roud #680
17. BI, LP08