It was bad when that great ship went down.
A song curiously similar to the ‘Titanic’ song is in The Carolina Low-Country, page 296, as sung by the negroes on the Santee River in South Carolina. The tune is changed but little. The words are:
It was sad w’en duh grabe sinkin’ down,
It was sad w’en duh grabe sinkin’ down,
Ain’ dat uh awful time,
People keep awake all night,
It was sad w’en duh grabe sinkin’ down.
The tune of ‘Dulcimer’ is of the ‘Lord Lovel’ type mentioned in the Introduction, [p. 14]. Other songs in this collection belonging to this type are ‘[Yongst]’, ‘[Dunlap’s Creek]’, ‘[Liverpool]’, ‘[Ester]’, ‘[Lonesome Grove]’, and ‘[Land of Rest]’. Other spiritual folk-tunes of the same type are ‘Eden’, GOS 558; ‘Thy Way O God’, PB 29; ‘Charlestown’, GOS 255; ‘Lord of Glory’, PB 374; ‘New Hope’, PB 373; ‘Golden Hill’, HH 211; ‘Webster’, OSH 31; ‘Hollis’, GOS 73; ‘Edneyville’, HH 193; ‘Blissful Hope’, REV 140; and ‘Tedious Hours’, SOC 69. Further secular tunes of the type are ‘Lord Lovel’, Sharp, i., 148; ‘The Two Brothers’, Davis, 563; ‘The Mermaid’, Sharp, i., 293; ‘Every Night When the Sun Goes In’, Sharp, ii., 269; ‘Three Little Babes’, Davis, 576; ‘Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies’, Sharp, ii., 135; ‘Barbara Allen’, Sharp, i., 195; ‘Gypsy Laddie’, Sharp, i., 237; ‘Horn Fair’, JFSS, ii., 204; and ‘The Cuckoo’, Sharp, ii., 177.
No. 164
[WEEPING MARY (A)], SOC 98
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)