{"id":1702,"date":"2015-06-05T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2011-04-12T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:06:36","slug":"songcraft-anne-briggs-blackwaterside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/songcraft-anne-briggs-blackwaterside\/","title":{"rendered":"SongCraft: Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series Song Craft<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

In the annals of pop and folk music, there are few sagas stranger than that of Anne Briggs. An awesomely talented singer of traditional English folk music, possessing of as pure and breathtakingly beautiful a voice as one could hope to have, she was the single most important influence on a group of female British folk singers that includes Sandy Denny,\u00a0Maddy Prior, June Tabor, and\u00a0Linda Thompson.<\/p>\n

Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside<\/strong><\/p>\n

One morning fair to take the air
\nDown by Blackwater side.
\n‘Twas in gazing all, all around me
\n‘Twas the Irish lad I spied.<\/p>\n

All through the first part of the night
\nWell, we lay in sport and play,
\nThen this young man he arose and he gathered his clothes,
\nHe said, \u201cFare thee well today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, that’s not the promise that you gave to me
\nWhen first you lay on my bed,
\nYou could make me believe with your lying tongue
\nThat the sun rose in the west.<\/p>\n

Then go home, go home, to your father’s garden,
\nYou go home and weep your fill.
\nAnd you think of your own misfortune
\nThat you brought with your wanton will.<\/p>\n

For there’s not a girl in this whole wide world
\nAs easily led as I,
\nSure it’s fishes they’ll fly and the seas run dry,
\n‘Tis then you’ll marry I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series Song Craft<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Well, that’s not the promise that you gave to me
\nWhen first you lay on my bed,
\nYou could make me believe with your lying tongue
\nThat the sun rose in the west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[231,161,121],"series":[224],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","tag-anne-briggs","tag-boo-madly","tag-eyeplug","series-songcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}