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Subject: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: GUEST,JonathanC Date: 28 Jan 02 - 06:27 AM Don't know if any of you can help, but if you can I’d be grateful... I've just finished re-reading Master & Commander by Patrick O'Brian, and in it (in chapter 12) the main character, Jack Aubrey, sings 2 verses from songs... What I’m wondering is if they are in fact parts of real songs, or if they were made up by the author. The first is about the Battle of the Nile, and the lyrics given are:
We anchored alongside of them like lions bold free. The second is just noted as 'another favourite naval song' and the lyrics given are:
There happened of late a terrible fray,
Any help would be appreciated |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: nutty Date: 28 Jan 02 - 09:51 AM The second set of words is from a broadside in the Bodleian Library at Oxford university which can be viewed using the link below CLICK HERE For more information go to www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads .....choose to browse and put "fray" into the box .....by scrolling down the options you can find the full explanation of this ballad I also search the Bodleian for the Banks of the Nile but was not able to find your version..... lets hope that someone else can. cheers |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: nutty Date: 28 Jan 02 - 10:01 AM Forget about the above I have just realised that its easier to copy/paste the info I really must wake up Search term is in ballad no. 1 of the sheet Printer: [s.n.] ([s.l.]) Date: [1660] Imprint: Printed in the Year, 1666. Ballads on sheet: 1 Note: Harding B 39(92) is a photograph of Wood 416(111). MS annotations on Wood 416(111), identifying persons alluded to in the title (Prince Rupert and George Duke of Albemarle) and the author (Sr John Birkenhead) and person alluded to in the text as "His Chaplain": Sam. Speed M.A. of Ch[rist] Ch[urch] in Oxon, son of Dr. Jo. Speed a physitian [sic] son of Joh. Speed the chronologer. This Samuel Speed became afterwards vicar of Godalming in Surrey, taking for wife a certain p[er]son of no great fortune, did overtopp him, & lived not in good content with her. He was after [that] canon of Ch[rist] Ch[urch] in Oxon. [on the reverse] "Answer" [verse, beginning:] Oh Berkenhead how hast thou troubled thy muse/ with a Burden yt noe body else would chuse ... Copies: Harding B 39(92) Wood 416(111) Ballads: 1. A new ballad of a famous German prince and a renowned English duke, who on st. James's day one thousand 666 fought with a beast with seven heads, called Provinces ("There happen'd of late a terrible fray ...") Author: Birkenhead, John To the tune of: Monsieur Ragou Subject: Anglo-Dutch War, 1664-1667; Rupert, prince, 1619-1682 Note: Wood 416(113) is the second part. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: masato sakurai Date: 28 Jan 02 - 10:15 AM There's this site: Music in the Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian, but the "Battle of the Nile" link doesn't come up. ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: nutty Date: 28 Jan 02 - 11:15 AM Amazingly it links back to the copy of Battle of the Nile in the Dt here but I'm not getting anywhere with that as shorty seems to be down. Someone else might have more luck |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 28 Jan 02 - 11:37 AM That appears to be a different song; the book from which it was taken actually called it Nelson's Victory, though that's usually one of the songs about Trafalgar. There were a number of songs about the Battle of the Nile (Banks of the Nile is something else entirely) but none of those I can find contains the lines quoted.
This link to the DT file should work on any server: The Battle of the Nile |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: songs from 'Master & Commander' From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Jan 02 - 01:41 PM I'll place a substantial sidebet that O'Brian found that set of words for "The Battle of the Nile" in some obscure source. He loved to include historical tidbits into what he was writing. You might also pose your query on the Patrick O'Brian website, although traditional ballads are not their strong suit. |
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