..And Fain Would Lie Doon
|? is perhaps a question whether Scottish ballads like "Lord Randall" and "Edward" should be done to music at all; but being so, it seems an error to strive to put more force into them than they already possess, especially when this is
done by means of skirling and groans, as in the last verse of "*Widdicombe Fair ’-itself an excellent example of this style of singing carried to the point of burlesque. Some eminent singers are guilty of this — Tohn Charles
Thomas ("Lord Randall") and Lawrence Tibhett ("Edward")-but surely these ballads are obvious cases of the explosive force of mere statement and don’t need reinforcement by quite so much _horrific-pause-and-bellow-of-agony stuff? And some of the most. hair-rais-ing verses are actually omitted from the recorded version of "Lord Randall"; the cheerful explanations that the eels at dinner were "speckled and blotched," and that his hounds having tasted "they swelled and they died, mother." If its horror you're after, these have it,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 11
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