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When I Was a Young Girl

from The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs by Angeline Morrison

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WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL (Roud 2)
This one’s a member of the Unfortunate Rake family. It’s a big family, this ballad has variants in the UK, Ireland, the Caribbean and the USA, with many diverse names. My version here is mostly based on Nina Simone’s. The mighty and much-missed Norma Waterson sang the variant Bright Shiny Morning - which she had learned from the singing of Caribbean source singer Beatrice Mapsey Johnson - as the title track of her third solo album. Norma greatly inspired me as a singer, so this is dedicated to her.

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When I was a young girl, I used to seek pleasure.
When I was a young girl, I used to drink ale,
Straight out of the alehouse and into the jailhouse,
Straight out of the bar room and down to my grave.

Come mother, come father and sit you beside me,
Come sit you beside me and pity my case,
For my poor head is aching, my sad heart is breaking,
My body salvating and I am bound for to die.

Go send for the preacher to come and pray o'er me,
Go send for the doctor to bind up my wounds,
For my poor head is aching, my sad heart is breaking,
My body's salvating and hell is my doom.

I want six young maidens to walk by my coffin,
I want six young maidens to bear me along,
And each of them carrying a bunch of white roses,
To lay on my body as we pass along.

One morning, one morning, one morning in May,
I saw a young maiden wrapped up in white linen,
Wrapped up in white linen,
And cold as the clay...

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from The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs, released May 1, 2022
Trad. Arr: Angeline Morrison
Vocals & Shruti: Angeline Morrison

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Angeline Morrison and The Ambassadors of Sorrow

"Bewitching and otherworldly... Morrison's voice is eerily confiding, strangely present, insistent even at its quietest" Folk Radio UK.

Believing in the beauty of sad songs, weaving folk, soul and beat sounds of the '60s into a tapestry of the human heart. Homespun sounds that reside in a nostalgic universe.

"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing. ... more

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