Collector: John and Alan Lomax
Source: American Ballads and Folk Songs
Date of Composition:
Publication: Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements, Benjamin Britten: Complete Folk Song Arrangements, Boosey & Hawkes 2001
Voice Difficulty Level: Moderately Difficult
Subject: A woman’s song about a love that comes and goes.
Range: F#4 – A5
Tessitura: A4 – E5
Tempo: Slow and Free; 3/4
Duration: 02:14
Vocal Characteristics: Simple ballad; free rubato lines; leap of min. 6th to sustained A5;
Piano Difficulty Level: Moderate
Accompaniment Characteristics: Octave introduction of the melody between hands; sustained chords; sixteenths in the right against triplets in the left; quintuplets in the right hand against triplets in the left