No. 48
[REDEMPTION (A)], WH 101
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 4 a + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)
Come, friends and relations, let’s join heart and hand,
The voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
Let’s all join together and follow the sound,
And march to the place where redemption is found.
The tune was perhaps the inspiration of R. Boyd in making the melody for ‘[Female Convict]’, which is in this collection. (Or did the influence flow in the opposite direction?) The ‘Grenadier and the Lady’, as sung in England, is practically the same tune. See JFSS, viii., 194. Full text and a variant melody are given under ‘Redemption (B)’. An ancestor of all these tunes seems to be ‘Westron Wynde’ of the early part of the sixteenth century. See Jackson, English Melodies from the 13th to the 18th Century, p. 11.
No. 49
[PRODIGAL], SKH 35
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)