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In Newport Town (Roud 18) - Mrs. Donia Cooper

Newport Town / The Bramble Briar / In Bruton Town / The Jealous Brothers / The Cruel Brothers / The Bridgewater Merchant (Roud No. 18) - Sung by Mrs. Donia Cooper of West Fork, Arkansas. Recorded by Mary Celestia Parler on August 14, 1959. Some of the tunes used for this ballad are very attractive. Here is a fragment recorded from a Gypsy singer in Kent with another good tune:    • The Brake of Briars (Roud 18) - Nelson Ridley   Note by Kevin W.: A traditional version of "The Bramble Briar". This ballad is rare on both sides of the Atlantic. It must have originated in a broadside printing but apparently survived in tradition for a long time without the help of later reprints for all the traditional texts display varying degrees of corruption. To my knowledge no broadside sheet of this ballad has been discovered to date. Here is a reconstruction of the hypothetical broadside based on surviving texts from oral tradition: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/du... As for Mrs. Cooper's version, it is a short, worn down text which lost many of the important plot points but still gets the sense across. I'm quite fond of her tune which recalls the "Bruton Town" tune collected by Cecil Sharp from George Whitcombe in Westhay, Somerset on January 15, 1907. Mrs. Cooper's text has the ending with the brothers fleeing to sea, to escape the hanging, where they end up being drowned. Song transcription: In Newport Town there lived a merchant, Who had two sons and a daughter fair. A prince’s band-boy[*], free from all danger, Came courting this white lily fair. It was one day they were sitting out courting, When her two brothers overheard, Saying, “We’ll put an ending to your courtship;" Saying, “We’ll put an ending to your courting of her." The very next day these boys did ramble, And off a-hunting they did go. They traveled over the rocks and mountains, And through some valleys did go through. They traveled to they came to that lonesome desert, And there they killed her lover there. When they returned back home that evening, Their sister asked, "Where’s the wedding man?" "—We lost him in the woods out hunting, And never more there could we find.” The very next day this girl did ramble, And off a-hunting she did go; She traveled over the rocks and mountains, And through some valleys did go through. She traveled till she came to that lonesome desert And there she found her lover there. His cheeks with blood they were laden, His lips were salty as any brine; She kissed him over and over saying, "You dear bosom friend of mine." She kissed him over and over saying, "You dear bosom friend of mine. "I thought I’d stay with you through all danger And through all danger I’ve promised t' stay with. But I feel a dark shadow a-drifting o’er me That forces me back home to die.” When she returned back home that evening, Her brothers asked where she had been. Saying, "You cruel-hearted and unkind brothers For this one man you both shall hang." Saying, "You cruel-hearted and unkind brothers, For this one man you both shall hang.” To escape this hanging these boys did ramble Upon the dark and stormy sea; The wind did raise and the sea got darker Till over came their overthrown. The wind did raise and the sea got darker, Till over came their overthrown. "An apprentice boy" or perhaps "A 'prentice boy"