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Mary died on her, and was buried at sea in the Macassar Straits. He afterwards took to drink; but Mary told him to stop, and he devoted himself to work. In London, using his savings, he formed a partnership with a man named M'Cullough and set up a ship-repair foundry. It was successful, and they moved to the Clyde to build ships. Business ...
The ballad describes a ship that left port, its misadventure and eventual sinking. The moral of the song is that mermaids are a sign of an impending shipwreck. [2] It is sung from the point of view of a member of the ship's crew, although the ship sinks without any survivors.
A man rises up to tell her that he is the father, and that he is a silkie — a shapeshifter that takes the form of a man on the land and a seal in the sea, and that he lives on a remote rocky island called Sule Skerry. He gives her a purse full of gold, takes his son, and predicts that she will marry a gunner who will shoot both him and their son.
"Clerk Colvill" or "Clerk Colven" (Roud 147, Child 42) otherwise known as "The Mermaid", is a traditional English-language folk ballad. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful (1912), where it was illustrated by Vernon Hill .
"You Are My First Love" (from It's Great to Be Young) "I'm in Love for the Very First Time" (from An Alligator Named Daisy) – Ivor Novello Award winner (1955) "The Heart of a Man" (from The Heart of a Man) (Frankie Vaughan) "Play Rough" (from Violent Playground) Several songs from The Good Companions (1957) "Give Me a Man" (from To Dorothy a ...
Florence Mary Wilson (c. 1870 – 1946) was a poet who wrote the ballad The Man from God Knows Where. Life. Born in Lisburn, County ...
The ballad's writing style suggests it was written by a professional ballad writer inventing a tale that combined England's famous hero with the then popular genre of stories involving a victory over a hated foreign enemy in the French, making it unlikely the tale originated from an older medieval popular tradition, and certainly not an actual ...
The Allies under the Duke of York and Vice-Admirals Earl of Sandwich and Comte Jean II d'Estrées planned to blockade the Dutch in their home ports and deny the North Sea to Dutch shipping. The Dutch had at their disposal a fleet of 75 warships, 20,738 men and 4,484 cannon, commanded by Lieutenant-Admirals Michiel de Ruyter , Adriaen Banckert ...