“The Shad”
Description
Fragment: "Bait a hook to catch a shad/The first thing he bit was my old Dad/Pulled her away with all my might/Trying for to get the old man out/Fishpole broke and I got mad/Down to the bottom went old Dad"
Notes
Fragment it may be, but it has a coherent story. Most of the lyrics appear as floaters in "Lulu (II)," but that's a nonballad with a thoroughly different gestalt, and I assume the words floated over there on their own. - PJS
Cross references
- cf. "Lulu (II)" (lyrics)
References
- SharpAp 254, "The Shad" (1 fragment, 1 tune)
- Roud #3663
- BI, ShAp2254