Comments on: Water Is Wide

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:46:16 +0000

A lovely song – really liked this one. Like most of them anyway.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:21:22 +0000

AAh Muzza, Jane… The gravatar thing is quite easy, but posting a likeness of myself wasn’t really the point as my chosen representitive is more a fantasy me. I have the beard, fashioned into an over-ripe goatee, but the locks last flowed a couple of years shy of the millennial change over and are now simply too sketchy to bother with. As for the interview, modesty aside, we only had the one camera and I thought you’d rather see Jon & John than me.

By: muzza(s.e.England)

muzza(s.e.England) — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:41:34 +0000

@Jane….you say that’s not a true likeness of AdminSimon/skyman……..that’s akin to you telling me that there was no Santa!………
oh – now I do remember a shot of the back of his l’il old close-cropped head when he put up that video of his interview with Jon B & John S.(and I complained that he was too shy and should have at least put in a “Nodding Head shot” of himself)…
celebrities…I ask yer-what are they like!

By: Jane Ramsden

Jane Ramsden — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:04:09 +0000

@ Muzza: Only because that hat is too big to allow many in a room! It’s a good pic of me, if only it were a bit bigger so you could see me properly! However, it is the real me… I may be wrong, but I have a sneaking suspicion Admin Skyman doesn’t really look like the pic he uploaded… hehehehe!

By: muzza(s.e.England)

muzza(s.e.England) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:43:56 +0000

Ref Admin Simon’s instructions to putting up an Avatar………I am tickled pink to see that the lovely Jane has cracked it and now we see her….not only that…but the site has uploaded her pic to all her comments back in the archives………
You will never see,MIke Harding/the ‘Rochdale cowboy’ or Jane in a room at the same time!

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By: Sparrow « A Folk Song A Day

Sparrow « A Folk Song A Day — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:01:37 +0000

[...] of this link also draws similarities to O Waly Waly (Child ballad #92), which would link us back to Water Is Wide on 13th of September. In all cases it seems to be infidelity at the root, which manifests itself in [...]

By: Jo Breeze

Jo Breeze — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:58:22 +0000

More about Water is Wide from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
There is 1 record of Water is Wide in the Library, from the singing of Almeda Riddle in Arkansas.
http://tinyurl.com/waterwide1
We used the Roud number to cross reference against different titles for the song. When searched on Roud No. 87, there are 89 records, under titles including ‘Jamie Douglas’, ‘Waly Waly’ , with many versions collected from Scotland.
http://tinyurl.com/waterwide2
If you wish to see more detail on each record, change the ‘output’ to ‘record’ and press ‘submit query’.
There are 2 records of the song in the Take 6 collection, both under the title Waly Waly.
http://tinyurl.com/waterwide3
We use the Roud index and the Take 6 online collections in the search for information on Jon’s selections.
For more information, or to carry out your own search for songs, please visit http://www.efdss.org/front/access-the-library-online/access-the-library-online/115
If you need any help accessing the library online or have any questions, please contact the VWML on 020 7485 2206 or library@efdss.org.

By: rt

rt — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:49:18 +0000

you don’t mention in your blurb the song Carrickfergus which has the same chorus

By: Val bagnall

Val bagnall — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:38:27 +0000

I think this is just lovely the way John sings it.