Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Popular music of the olden time > Volume 1

260 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
Smoothly and rather sloiv.
m
E^
§
^ —
us
^s
As I was walking all alone, I heard a youth la - ment - ing.
iSl
-ttaJzSai
rmzPF^^^
N— E
g
3=
Under a hoi - low bush he lay, But sore he did re - pent him. A
-F -
li
Ul-fTj I Q_^ ^y=^
-las! quoth he, my love is gone, Which caus- eth me to wan - der,
_(■ _t t—^f^ -JT-
P^ ^^
'f
w
3
1
^:
PP
Yet merry will I ne - ver be. Till I lie lull-ing be-yond her.
I
m
COME, SHEPHERDS, DECK YOUR HEADS.
This is also one of the songs mentioned by old Isaak Walton.
Milkwoman, " What song was it, I pray? was it 'Come, shepherds, deck your
heads;' or, 'As, at noon, Duleina rested;' or, 'Philida flouts me;' or. Chevy
Chace ;' or, 'Johnny Armstrong ; ' or, ' Troy To"v\ti ? ' " *
Izaak Walton was born in 1593, and married first Rachel Cranmer, niece of
that distinguished prelate, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1624.
The air is found, under its English name, in Bellerophoii, of Lust tot Wyshed^
Amsterdam, 1622 ; and in Gescmgh der Zeeden^ Amsterdam, 1662.**
The words (which Ritson said " are not known ") will be found in the Pepys
Collection, i. 366, entitled " The Shepherd's Lamentation : to the tune of
* All will be found in this collection except "Johnny
Armstrong" of which (although an English song, and of
a Westmoreland man) I have not yet found the tune. The
words are in Wit restored, 1658, and in Wit and Drollery,
Jovial Poems, 1682, called "A Northern Ballet, " begin-
ning— " There dwelt a man in fair Westmorland,
Johnny Armstrong men did him call;
He had neither lands nor rents coming in,
Yet he kept eight score men in his hall."
There is also a Scotch ballad about the same hero.
*• There is another English tune under the same name,
to be found in two other collections, Nederlandtsche Ge-
denck-Clanck, 1626, and Friescke Lusl-Hof, 1634. I printed
it in National English Airs, 1839, but think this rather
more like a ballad-tune, and it is of somewhat earlier
authority.