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Tarplin, M.: Ain't That Peculiar Torme, Melvin H.: The Christmas Song
Taylor, Tony: Emotional Step Trad.: Bold Young Farmer
Taylor, Tony: I've Got This Feeling Trad.: Danny Boy
Taylor, Tony: On The Inside Trad.: Wade In The Water
Taylor, Tony: You Are Trad.: Waly Waly
Theard, Sam: Let The Good Times Roll Trad.: The Water Is Wide
Thiele, Robert: What A Wonderful World Trad.: Way Beyond The Blue
Thompson, Wayne Carson: The Letter Trad.: Wayfaring Stranger

Waly Waly

(Trad. arr. Eva Cassidy)






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10





15
When cockleshells turn to silvery bells
Then will my love return to me
When roses bloom in the wintery snow
Then will my love return to me

Oh waly waly love be bonnie
And bright as a jewel when it's first new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew

There is a ship it's sailing the sea
It's loaded high and deep can be
But not so deep as my love for him
I know not if I sink or swim

Oh waly waly love be bonnie
And bright as a jewel when it's first new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like morning dew



found on (#1) EBH (cd/cas), promo single Hot 6; (#2) WW (remixed). Compilations: Williams-Biondo demo CD.
►Stanzas 2-4 are also found, with slight variations, in TWIW. TWIW and Waly Waly are in fact variant titles for the same traditional song whose history goes at least as far back as the early 18th century. See contemplator.com; if you are especially interested, consult F.J. Child's introduction to ballad No. 204, 'Jamie Douglas', in his English And Scottish Popular Ballads (vol. IV, pp. 90-103). This work should be available in large public libraries.
►For an early version of the lyrics see Bartleby.
►More than a dozen threads at Mudcat Cafe are concerned with this song and TWIW.
►For printed sources and references to related songs see Ibiblio Folk Index
►We are indebted to Kelly for corrections to the lyrics.
►PL - Song by song.
original: ? (folk song)
covers: Tossi Aaron* (196?); Ted Alevizos* (1960); Harry Belafonte§ (196?); Mary Black§; Sarah Brightman (1988); Benjamin Britten (arr.); Cynthia Gooding* (1956); Burl Ives; King's Singers§; The Kingston Trio§; [more...] John Langstaff* (196?); Benjamin Luxon, Bill Crofut & Friends (1987); Nana Mouskouri (somewhat different lyrics); Odetta§; Esther & Abi Ofarim§; The Phoenix Singers§; Buffy Sainte-Marie (1966); Pete Seeger§; James Taylor§; Robert Tear & Philip Ledger* (1975). Asterisked items may be versions of Jamie Douglas, a distinct but related Scottish song. Paragraph sign (§) indicates that lyrics may differ substantially from those sung by Eva. See further under TWIW.