The Foggy Dew
Cecil Sharp Manuscript Collection (at Clare College, Cambridge)
(CJS2/9/87)
- First Line
- One night as I lay on my bed
- Performer
- White, Lucy / Hooper, Louie
- Date collected
- 23 Dec 1903
- Place
- England : Somerset : Hambridge
- Collector
- Sharp, Cecil J.
- Roud No
- 558 [Search for 558 in the current indexes]
- Alt Ref No
- FW 87 / FT 51
- Format
- Manuscript
- Type
- Song
- Subtype
- Src Contents
- Text
- Named Tune
- Child No
- Laws No
- Laws O3
- Notes
-
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words p.87 / Folk Tunes p.51
- Author / Composer
- VWML Location
- Repository
- Clare College, Cambridge
- Printer / Publisher
- Pub Place
- Pub Date
- Level
- Item
- Volume
- Folk Words
- Assoc Source
- Date extant
Media
1 media item.
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The Foggy Dew
One night as I lay on my bed
As I lay fast asleep
A pretty maid came to my bedside
Most bitterly she did weep
She wrung her hands and tore her hair
Crying asking what shall I do?
Come into my bed my fair pretty maid
For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
For fear of the foggy dew
So there they laid all that long night
Till daylight did appear
Come rise pretty maid and don't be afraid
For the foggy dew is gone, gone, gone
For the foggy dew is gone
I never told her all her faults
And I never do intend so to do
But there's many a time I've rolled her in my arms
For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
For fear of the foggy dew
Lucy White & Louie Hooper at Hambridge Dec 23 1903
Transcription
Show all of transcriptionThe Foggy Dew
One night as I lay on my bed
As I lay fast asleep
A pretty maid came to my bedside
Most bitterly she did weep
She wrung her hands and tore her hair
Crying asking what shall I do?
Come into my bed my fair pretty maid
For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
For fear of the foggy dew
So there they laid all that long night
Till daylight did appear
Come rise pretty maid and don't be afraid
For the foggy dew is gone, gone, gone
For the foggy dew is gone
I never told her all her faults
And I never do intend so to do
But there's many a time I've rolled her in my arms
For fear of the foggy dew, dew, dew
For fear of the foggy dew
Lucy White & Louie Hooper at Hambridge Dec 23 1903
Relationships
- CJS2/9 Folk words collected by Cecil Sharp
- CJS2/9/87 The Foggy Dew (This record)
