Collector: Cecil Sharp (1859-1924)
Source: Volume 6: England
Date of Composition: 1958 (pre Jun. 17)
Publication: Boosey & Co., Ltd., 1961
Voice Difficulty Level: Moderately Easy
Subject: Courting of women to be the wife of a sailor-boy.
Range: F#4 – F#5
Tessitura: B4 – D5
Tempo: Quick and gay; 2/2
Duration: 01:35
Vocal Characteristics: Boisterous, declamatory melody; a few phrases lie around F#5 each verse;
Piano Difficulty Level: Moderate
Accompaniment Characteristics: Octaves throughout until the postlude; dotted eighth sixteenth dotted figure throughout; chordal section; ascending triplet scalar pattern spanning three octaves
Additional Comments: For guitar and voice; transcribed for piano by Richard Walters in Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements.