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TRADITIONAL TUNES. 19
The ballad itself is much too long and too well known for
insertion here.
CHEVY CHACE.
God pros-per long our noble king, Our lives, and safe-ties all ;
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no-ble hunt ■ ing did there once In Chev-y Cha:e
God'prosper long our noble king,
Our lives and safeties all ;
A woeful hunting did there once
In Chevy Chace befall.
To drive the deer with hound and horn,
Earl Percy took his way :
The child may rue that is unborn
The hunting of that day.
Etc. etc..
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THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER.
THIS is an example of a very ancient ballad, which has come
down traditionally to our own time. The tune, from its
peculiar structure, is, I am confident, quite contemporary with very
early copies of the words. It used to be sung many years ago by
the Leeds mill girls, and was one of the " fly boat songs," as they
were named. This title was given on account of the lads and lasses
who invested their pence in fly boat rides at fairs, etc., singing such
like ditties. The chief characteristic of a " fly boat song," was its
easy swing and vigour.
My friend, Mr. Benjamin Holgate, of Leeds, to whom I am in-
debted for so many excellent airs in this collection, supplies the air
and fragment of song.