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English folk carol

"The Twa Corbies", illustration by Arthur Rackham to Some British Ballads

"The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English language folk ballad, printed in the song book Melismata ^[1] compiled by Thomas Ravenscroft and published in 1611, but it is maybe older than that. Newer versions (with different music) were recorded right up through the 19th century. Francis James Child recorded several versions in his Kid Ballads (catalogued as number 26).

The carol takes the form of 3 scavenger birds conversing almost where and what they should consume. One tells of a newly slain knight, but they find he is guarded by his loyal hawks and hounds. Furthermore, a "fallow doe", an obvious metaphor for the knight's pregnant ("as great with immature as she might go") lover or mistress (come across "leman") comes to his body, kisses his wounds, bears him away, and buries him, leaving the ravens without a meal. The narrative ends with "God transport euery gentleman / Such haukes, such hounds, and such a Leman".

Text of the ballad [edit]

The lyrics to "The Three Ravens" are hither transcribed using 1611 orthography. They tin can be sung either straight through in stanzas of four lines each, or in stanzas of ii lines each repeating the first line three times depending on how long the performer would like the ballad to concluding. The 2d method appears to be the more canonical, and then that is what is illustrated below. The refrains are sung in all stanzas, only they will only be shown for the first.

There were 3 rauens^[2] sat on a tree,

downe a downe, hay downe, hay downe, ^[3]

There were three rauens saturday on a tree,

with a downe,

At that place were three rauens sat on a tree,

They were as blacke equally they might be.

With a downe, derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe.

The one of them said to his mate,

Where shall we our breakfast take?

Downe in yonder greene field,

There lies a Knight slain nether his shield,

His hounds they prevarication downe at his feete,

And then well they can their Master keepe,

His Hawkes they flie so eagerly,

There'due south no fowle dare him come nie^[4]

Downe in that location comes a dormant Doe,

As peachy with yong equally she might goe,

She lift upwards his bloudy head,

And kist his wounds that were and then blood-red,

She got him up upon her backe,

And carried him to earthen lake,^[5]

She buried him earlier the prime,^[6]

She was dead her cocky ere euen-song time.

God send euery admirer,

Such haukes, such hounds, and such a Leman.^[vii]

The Twa Corbies [edit]

The Twa Corbies, illustration past Thou. Howell-Bakery, from his volume Penholm (1901)

Written in the Scots linguistic communication, there is no record of how early "The Twa Corbies" outset performed. Child (I, 253) quotes a letter from Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Walter Scott (August 8, 1802): "The song of 'The Twa Corbies' was given to me by Miss Erskine of Alva (now Mrs Kerr), who, I recollect, said that she had written it downwardly from the recitation of an quondam woman at Alva." which indicates it was already known in Scotland at that appointment. ^[eight] It was first published in Walter Scott's Minstrelsy in 1812.

Information technology has a more dark and cynical tone than the Three Ravens, from which its lyrics were conspicuously derived. There are merely two scavengers in "The Twa Corbies", merely this is the least of the differences between the songs, though they do brainstorm the same. Rather than commenting on the loyalty of the knight's beasts, the corbies tell that the hawk and the hound have forsaken their chief, and are off chasing other game, while his mistress has already taken some other lover. The ravens are therefore given an undisturbed meal, as nobody else knows where the human lies, or even that he is dead. They talk in gruesome detail about the meal they volition make of him, plucking out his eyes and using his hair for their nests. Some themes believed to be portrayed in "Twa Corbies" are: the fragility of life, the idea life goes on later death, and a more pessimistic viewpoint on life. The loneliness and despair of the vocal are summed upwards in the final couplets;

O'er his banes [bones], when they are blank,

The wind sall [shall] blaw for evermair

There are a few different versions of this anonymously authored poem. The full text of at least one version of the poem is equally follows:

As I was walking all alane,^[9]

I heard twa^[10] corbies^[11] making a mane;^[12]

The tane^[13] unto the t'other say,

'Where sall we gang and dine to-day?'

'In behint yon auld fail^[fourteen] dyke,

I wot^[15] there lies a new slain knight;

And naebody kens^[16] that he lies there,

But his militarist, his hound, and lady off-white.

'His hound is to the hunting gane,^[17]

His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame,^[eighteen]

His lady's taen^[19] some other mate,

And then nosotros may mak our dinner sweet.

'Ye'll sit on his white hause-blight,^[20]

And I'll state highway^[21] out his attractive blueish een;^[22]

Wi ae lock o his gowden^[23] hair

We'll theek^[24] our nest when it grows bare.

'Mony^[25] a one for him makes mane,^[26]

But nane sall ken^[27] where he is gane;^[17]

Oer^[28] his white banes,^[29] when they are bare,

The air current sall blaw^[30] for evermair.^[31]'

This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful (1912) and illustrated by Vernon Hill.

Recordings [edit]

"The 3 Ravens" and "Twa Corbies" have been performed and recorded by artists such as Heather Alexander, Annwn, A Chorus of 2, Ayreheart, Damh the Bard, Bishi, Boiled in Atomic number 82, Scott Boswell, Djazia Satour, Cécile Corbel, Clam Chowder, The Corries, Kleptomaniacal Rima oris, Alfred Deller, The Duplets, Frances Faye, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Fiddler's Dram, Ray Fisher & Archie Fisher, John Fleagle and Ewan MacColl, John Harle, The Hare and The Moon, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bert Jansch, Joel Cohen, Kalin Sivov, Andrew Rex, Mandala Folk, Marie Little, Malinky, Onetime Blind Dogs, Omnia, Kate Price, Schelmish, Sol Invictus, Sonne Hagal, Sequester, Steeleye Span, Andreas Scholl, Hamish Imlach, Libera (choir), Richard Thompson, Ariella Uliano, Diana Obscura, Terre di mezzo, Kenneth McKellar, Custer LaRue and The Baltimore Espoused, Merry Wives of Windsor, Sportive Tricks, The Creepy Bard, The Sands Family, Alice Moving Under Skies, Astral Weeks, Winterfylleth and Faun. The album Farewell Aldebaran contains a song clearly based on Three Ravens just the lyric credits go to Judy Henske, music by Jerry Yester.

In pop civilisation [edit]

• The popular American stone ring The Horrible Crowes takes its name from "Twa Corbies".
• The song is featured in The Adventure Company's game Jack the Ripper and plays a major role in the gameplay.
• The song is mentioned in Diana Gabaldon's novel The Peppery Cantankerous, when Roger MacKenzie encounters some crows in the wood.
• The vocal appears in the 1922 fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros, past Due east. R. Eddison, sung by the Lady Mevrian in mourning for her lost brother. The novel was one of the favourites of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. Due south. Lewis.
• Dorothy L. Sayers quotes the concluding ii lines of the ballad in her mystery novel Clouds of Witnesses.
• In that location is a story, The 3 Ravens, in Jim Henson's HBO special The Storyteller which, despite its title, is based on the German fairy tale The 6 Swans.
• The carol was selected for use in the 2017 catamenia film My Cousin Rachel, following a commission for a "dark" English folk tune sung at a Christmas feast for an early-1800s farmstead.^[32]
• A recording of the song features in the credits for the 2014 Channel 4 period drama New Worlds, which is set up in England during the 1680s.
• The song, in a version by John Harle, features in Simon Schama's A History of Britain, particularly in the episodes "The Trunk of the Queen", "The British Wars" and "The Two Winstons".

Translations and adaptations in other languages [edit]

Both "The Three Ravens" and "Twa Corbies" have been translated to other languages, typically all sung to the same tune every bit Twa Corbies, or that of the Breton vocal called An Alarc'h (The Swan).

Known versions include:

• Danish: Ravnene (The Ravens), a translation of Twa Corbies (i.e. the cynical lyrics, sans the final stanza) past Danish folklorist Svend Grundtvig (1824–1883)
• Hebrew: שלושה בני עורב (Three sons of a raven), translated by Nathan Alterman, and a more popular translation שלושה עורבים (Iii ravens) by Yaakov Shabtai.
• Finnish: Kaksi korppia is a translation of "Twa Corbies" past Finnish band Tarujen Saari.
• Frisian: De twa roeken, translated by Klaes Bruinsma, sung by Doede Veeman on his LP "Frustraasjebloes".
• German language: Die drei Raben, a quite literal translation of The Three Ravens, by Theodor Fontane (1819–1898). Dice zwei Raben by the same author, is the best known German version of Twa Corbies.
• the German medieval/stone crossover group Schelmish wrote a High german version of The Iii Ravens lyrics, also titled Rabenballade (Raven's Ballad).
• also, the German group Subway to Sally wrote the vocal Krähenfraß (Food for the Crows), also based on the Twa Corbies version and using a very similar melody, merely with even more sinister lyrics. This version places the story in our times, replaces the knight with a soldier, and adds a new stanza in the end, loosely translating to "the bare bones will be clean / and preserved for a long time / and announce shining from the dirt / what a soldier's purpose is" (namely: the vocal title).
• the High german Neo-Medieval grouping Die Streuner has their own version titled "Rabenballade", with a rather emotional melody and cynical lyrics: Not only do the dogs stop guarding their master, they eat his flesh the next twenty-four hour period. The falcons (not mentioned to be his ain) are simply "no longer seen" and the maid "already that evening doesn't sleep lone".
• the Czech folk music group Spirituál kvintet adapted the tune of The Three Ravens to record a song Válka růží [1]. However, the theme has been completely inverse, as the new lyrics concerned the Wars of the Roses between Yorks and Lancasters.
• the Czech folk music group Asonance adopted the Twa Corbies in very lyric translation, quite similar to original.
• the Czech folk metal group Hakka Muggies used the tune in song Havrani (lit. Ravens). The lyrics however follow a story of ii Scottish outlaw brothers, and so the ravens are rather metaphorical.
• the Czech grouping Ječmen playing Irish folk used the melody and text from Asonance to make a funny version about two chickens trying to survive after they've eaten all the barley and their chief cannot make whisky.
• Norwegian: Ravnene (The Ravens), a translation very similar to the Danish version. The Norwegian folk rock group Folque performed this song on their debut anthology, and used a tune very similar to Steeleye Span'south version.
• Russian: The nifty Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin published in 1828 fractional translation of the French translation of Sir Walter Scott's Edge Poems. It includes the poem entitled "Шотландская песня" (Scottish Song), which has go known to most every literate Russian-speaking person. Pushkin'southward translation contains only the kickoff half of the poem, ending with "and the mistress awaits for her lover, not the killed 1, but the alive ane", thus making a nighttime hint the fundamental bespeak of the story. Many composers of the time wrote musical interpretations of the poem [2].
• the Russian folk band Sherwood (in Russian) recorded a Russian-language version of Twa Corbies in their album "Sweet Joan" (2010) using their own translation.
• Basque: Bi beleak is a translation of "Twa Corbies" from the Basque poet Jon Mirande, sung past the Basque singer Imanol Larzabal.
• The Shine folk band Odpust Zupełny recorded a Polish-linguistic communication version 'Ballada o dwóch krukach' (Ballad of two ravens).

See also [edit]

• Listing of Child Ballads

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Thomas Ravenscroft, William Ravenscroft (1611). "Covntry Pastimes". Melismata. p. 20. Retrieved 2007-08-15 .
2. ^ In printed text of the time, u and v were oft used interchangeably.
3. ^ The refrain consists of nonsense words that create a vocal musical interlude between lines of the stanza. Run across Puirt a beul.
4. ^ Nie: Variant of near.
5. ^ Lake: Pit.
6. ^ Prime, Euen-song: run across Canonical hours.
7. ^ Leman: Sweetheart or mistress
8. ^ See Malcolm Douglas's mail in the mudcat.org thread on the subject, which gives more detailed references.
9. ^ lone
10. ^ two
11. ^ carrion crows
12. ^ moan
13. ^ one
14. ^ turf
15. ^ know
16. ^ knows
17. ^ ^{a b} gone
18. ^ dwelling
19. ^ taken
20. ^ breast bone
21. ^ peck
22. ^ eyes
23. ^ with a lock of his golden
24. ^ feather
25. ^ many
26. ^ a moan
27. ^ none shall know
28. ^ over
29. ^ basic
30. ^ shall blow
31. ^ evermore
32. ^ Roger Michell (Manager) (29 August 2017). "Audio commentary by Roger Michell and Kevin Loader". My Cousin Rachel (DVD). Britain: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. 46 minutes in. And the song that we commissioned I wanted to be dark and not playful. And our musical director, ... Neill MacColl, did a marvellous task ... in helping select that old English folk tune ...

Files [edit]

• Rabenanwälte und Abmahnkrähen(help·info) (High german) – a parody of "The 3 Ravens".

External links [edit]

Written works [edit]

• The diverse versions of these ballads as collected by Child
• Online text: Minstrelsy Ancient and Mod by William Motherwell, 1827. Twa Corbies is on page 7.
• Music and words for choral version - full general license

Recorded music and videos [edit]

• The Three Ravens past Andy Niedermeier
• The Three Ravens video past Andy Niedermeier
• The Three Ravens sung by Sarah Leonard on John Harle's CD Terror and Magnificence
• "The Three Ravens" Explicated Chatman — 1963
• The Three Ravens — The Facts on File companion to British poetry before 1600
• "Corbies by Steeleye Bridge" music video on YouTube

Further reading [edit]

• A literary analysis of the work: Vernon V Chatman Three, "The Three Ravens Explicated," Midwest Folklore, Vol. Xiii #3, Summer 1963

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Ravens

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