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Henry Street Settlement, 1946 (2019)

This folk song originated in the United Kingdom, but eventually made its way to North America by the early 20th century. A singer and Appalachian dulcimer player from Viper, Kentucky learned this song from an Irish kitchen and dining-room worker at New York City’s Henry Street Settlement in 1946. She put it on record in 1952 and I heard it for the first time in 2016. I communicate this song via klangfarbenmelodie with the violin, viola, and bowed psaltery – the melody slowly unfolds, conveying the dispassion of old love, after new love has faded. 

Marguerite Brown: bowed psaltery

Polly Malan: viola

Grijda Spiri: violin