{"id":507,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:55:48","slug":"maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-507-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/maid-of-the-sweet-brown-knowe-the.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe, The.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853902.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 562.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> P7.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Lucy Simpson.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 07\/06\/1979.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> private.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to sing about &#8216;The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.&#8217; The &#8216;Sweet Brown Knowe&#8217; was the name of a place. And this gentleman was going to take her away and marry her. And she&hellip; finally turned around, she said &#8211; he wanted her to come and look at all his cattle grazing &#8211; and, &#8216;Well,&#8217; she said, &#8216;I only, I hear people saying that you only- all you do&#8217; she said &#8216;is drink and booze all night, and go home at the break of day.&#8217; &#8216;Well,&#8217; he said, &#8216;if I drink and booze, it&#8217;s my own money I&#8217;m spending, so I&#8217;ll have nothing more to do with you.&#8217; That was that!<\/p>\n<p>Come all you lads and lassies, and listen to me awhile<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll sing for you a verse or two which&#8217;ll cause you all to smile<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all about a young man, I&#8217;m going to tell you now<br \/>\nWho lately came a-courting the maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.<\/p>\n<p>Says he, &#8216;My pretty fair maid, will you come along with me?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll both go off together and married we will be<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll join our hands in wedlock bands, I&#8217;m talking to you now,<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll do my whole endeavour for the maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This fair and fickle young thing, she knew not what to say<br \/>\nHer eyes did shine like silver bright and merrily did play<br \/>\nShe said, &#8216;Young man, my life&#8217;s subdued, for I&#8217;m not ready now<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll spend another season at the foot of the Sweet Brown Knowe.<\/p>\n<p>Says he, &#8216;My pretty fair maid, how can you say so?<br \/>\nLook down on yonder valley where my crops do gently grow<br \/>\nLook down on yonder valley where my horses and my plow<br \/>\nAre at their daily labour for the maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If they&#8217;re at their daily labour, kind sir, it&#8217;s not for me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve heard of your behaviour, I have indeed,&#8217; said she<br \/>\n&#8216;There is an inn where you call in, I hear the people say,<br \/>\nWhere you rap and you call and you pay for all and go home at the break of the day.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If I rap and I call and I pay for all, the money is all my own<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll never spend your fortune for I hear you have got none<br \/>\nYou thought you had my poor heart broken, talking to me now<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ll leave you where I found you, at the foot of the Sweet Brown Knowe.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Here Joe makes further remarks about place-names (at least those given in songs) that involve the word &#8216;sweet.&#8217; It is worth contrasting his conclusions here &#8211; that the adjective &#8216;sweet&#8217; simply indicated the pleasantness of the place or the generosity of the residents &#8211; with the argument he put forward, again to Lucy, regarding the meaning of &#8216;sweet&#8217; in &#8216;The Flower of Sweet Strabane&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This song appears, with the same air, in O Lochlainn, Irish Street Ballads (1939), 38.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}