Again I Am a Bachelor I Lived With My

Title: The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Author: unknown
CATEGORY: Traditional, Public Domain
KEYWORDS:courting, seduction, weaving, pregnancy, bastard
EARLIEST PRINTED OR RECORDED REFERENCE: 1689 (broadside, EngBdsdBA Pepys 5.250)

The foggy dew exists in ii chief versions, The Foggy Dew about the aftermath of the Easter Rebellion, an armed coup staged in Ireland during Easter Week 1916. The second version, the more popular 1 is known as The Foggy, Foggy Dew. In The Foggy, Foggy Dew a girl has been wooed by a swain, without apparent success, for some months. One nighttime, in great distress, she comes into his chamber and tells him that she is afraid of 'the foggy dew' (in some songs, 'the bugaboo'). The beau takes her into bed with him. Next forenoon she regrets this, just the boyfriend comforts her by saying that the cause of her fear is gone.

Diverse explanations of the phrase 'the foggy dew' have been put forward, the virtually detailed being that given by James Reeves in 'The Idiom of the People', 1958, pp. 45-57. He concludes that 'foggy dew' signifies the girl'due south impulse to seek the man'south comfort. [Revised from Susannes Folksong-Notizen]

OTHER TITLES AND VARIATIONS:

• When I Was a Bachelor
• The Weaver
• The Bugaboo

RECORDINGS: (mp3's available through Amazon.com)

• Bob Atcher, [easyazon_link asin="B0051WEG7A" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-20″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]Foggy Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
• Bradley Kincaid, [easyazon_link asin="B008PVJ9I0″ locale="United states" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-xx″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]The Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
• A. Fifty. Lloyd, [easyazon_link asin="B007PUG5BQ" locale="Usa" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-20″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]The Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
• Pete Seeger, [easyazon_link asin="B000SEXS20″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-xx″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]The Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
• Doug Wallin, [easyazon_link asin="B000SEZ652″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-20″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]
• Bulge Ives, [easyazon_link asin="B000WLL83A" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="stephgriff-twenty″ add_to_cart="default" cloaking="default" localization="default" popups="default"]Foggy, Foggy Dew[/easyazon_link]

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Foggy, Foggy Dew

When I was a bachelor, I lived all lonely,
I worked at the weaver'due south trade.
And the simply, but thing that I did that was wrong
Was to woo a fair young maid.
I wooed her in the wintertime, and part of the summertime besides.
And the only, simply thing that I did that was wrong
Was to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

One night she knelt close by my side
When I was fast asleep.
She threw her arms around my neck
And then began to weep.
She wept, she cried, she tore her hair, ah, me, what could I practice?
So all nighttime long I held her in my arms
Merely to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

Again I'm a bachelor, I live with my son,
We work at the weaver's merchandise.
And every single time I expect into his eyes,
He reminds me of the fair young maid.
He reminds me of the wintertime, and office of the summer besides,
And the many, many times that I held her in my arms,
Just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.

SOURCES:

• Traditional Ballad Alphabetize
• Digital Tradition—333, FOGGYDEW* FOGGDEW2 FOGGDEW5 BOGLEBO*
• Roud #558
• Laws: O3 American Balladry from British Broadsides
  (G. Malcolm Laws, Jr.) The American Folklore Society 1957

• Folk Song Alphabetize: A Comprehensive Guide to the Florence East. Brunnings Collection, Florence E. Brunnings, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London 1981—Amazon Books
• Land Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music, Guthrie T. Meade, Jr. with Dick Spottswood and Douglas S. Meade, Southern Folklife Collection, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, NC 2002—Amazon Books

SONGBOOKS:

• The American Songbag
  (Carl Sandburg) Harcourt, Caryatid, and Company 1927 —Amazon Books
• Folk Song Encyclopedia (Jerry Silverman) Hal Leonard 1975
• The Folk Songs of North America (in the English language Language) (Alan Lomax) Doubleday and Company 1960 —Amazon Books
• Folksinger's Wordbook(Fred and Irwin Silber) Music Sales Corporation 1973
• Rising Up and Sing!: The Group Singing Songbook (Peter Claret and Annie Patterson) A Sing Out! 2004, original 1988

NOTICE: I'm not the best guitar role player or vocalist, but no one loves these songs more than I do. The melody and lyrics are in the public domain unless otherwise noted. The recording © copyright 2013 by Stephen Griffith and may be used by permission of the copyright holder. The variation of the song I'm posting is the version I perform and is not exactly replicating the sources cited, but is ever in the same vocal family. If anyone has more details about this song, or believes I've stated something in mistake, please let me know. I'm also open up to suggestions to ameliorate the site. Thanks.sgg

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Source: http://www.stephengriffith.com/folksongindex/foggy-foggy-dew/

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