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Description: | Song about a girl who is courted by the Squire but waits for her soldier boyfriend to return from the war.This song forms a selection of songs written in the late eighteenth century by Cumberland poet, Susanna Blamire. Susanna Blamire was born in January, 1747 at Cardew-Hall, near Dalston. Remaining unmarried throughout her life, Blamire was able to enjoy relative freedom, attending social gatherings, dances and parties and composing whilst exploring her native countryside. This book was published in London, by George Routledge and Sons in the late-nineteenth century, sometime after the author's death and also includes works by Blamire's friend and confidant, Catherine Gilpin. Keith Gregson, in his introduction to 'Cumbrian songs and ballads', gives a concise account of songs and ballads in Cumberland during the nineteenth century. The period was, he says, 'bounded in terms of songs and ballads in the border counties, by the works of Robert Burns to the north and those of Geordie Ridley, Joe Wilson and Ned Corvan to the east. During the heart of the period itself, the songwriters of Cumbria - Robert Anderson and Susanna Blamire, in particular - had important contributions to make to the British song and ballad world. Composing words and setting them to the popular tunes of the day ... these Cumbrians left many songs of merit which have since been neglected'.Many of the songs in this and other Cumbrian songbooks do of course have strong Scottish influences and most of the tunes to which they were sung were undoubtedly Scottish. However the majority of the songs still reflect the nature of Cumberland life at the time and for this reason alone are valuable in their own right. A particularly isolated county, Cumberland has a strongly preserved dialect and the rural nature of the area is reflected in songs which centre around relationships between market and farm, man and woman, and the surrounding landscape. ; A selection of songs by Cumberland composer Susanna Blamire | Publisher: | Geo. Routledge and Sons John Menzies Geo. Coward London ; Edinburgh ; ScotlandCarlisle ; Cumbria | Rights holder: | rights holder : Border History Museum | Subjects: | love & war & Napoleonic Wars 1800-1815 marriage and courtship & war/armed forces Love | Temporal: | start=1861;end=1900; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:H1806402 | Go to resource |
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