The Whummil Bore (Child 27)
Francis James Child * Track #27 On The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
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- #1Riddles Wisely Expounded (Child 1A)
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- #2The Elfin Knight (Child 2A)
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- #3The Fause Knight Upon the Road (Child 3)
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- #4Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight (Child 4)
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- #5Gil Brenton (Child 5)
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- #6Willie’s Lady (Child 6)
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- #7Earl Brand (Child 7B)
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- #8Erlinton (Child 8A)
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- #9The Fair Flower of Northumberland (Child 9B)
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- #10The Twa Sisters (Child 10R)
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- #11The Cruel Brother (Child 11A)
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- #12Lord Randall (Child 12A)
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- #13Edward (Child 13B)
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- #14Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie (Child 14A)
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- #15Leesome Brand (Child 15A)
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- #16Sheath and Knife (Child 16)
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- #17Hind Horn (Child 17A)
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- #18Sir Lionel (Child 18A)
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- #19King Orfeo (Child 19)
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- #20The Cruel Mother (Child 20)
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- #21The Maid and the Palmer (Child 21)
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- #22St. Stephen and Herod (Child 22)
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- #23Judas (Child 23)
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- #24Bonnie Annie (Child 24A)
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- #25Willie’s Lyke-Wake (Child 25A)
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- #26The Three Ravens (Child 26)
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- #27The Whummil Bore (Child 27)
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- #28Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane (Child 28)
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- #29The Boy and the Mantle (Child 29)
Anonymous
- #30King Arthur and King Cornwall (Child 30)
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- #31The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Child 31)
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- #32Kemp Owyne (Child 34A)
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- #33
Alison Gross (Child 35)Anonymous
- #34The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea (Child 36)
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- #35Thomas Rhymer (Child 37A)
Anonymous
- #36Tam Lin (Child 39)
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- #37Sir Patrick Spens (Child 58)
Anonymous
- #38Bonny Barbara Allen (Child 84A)
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- #39Willie o Winsbury (Child 100A)
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- #40Johnie Cock (Child 114)
Traditional Transcriptions
- #41The Battle of Otterburn (Ballad 161)
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- #42Geordie (Child 209)
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- #43The Braes O’ Yarrow (Child 214E)
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- #44The Mother’s Malison, or, Clyde’s Water (Child 216C)
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- #45Our Goodman
Traditional Transcriptions
- #46Thomas The Rhymer (37 B)
Anonymous
- #47The Elfin Knight (Child 2G)
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- #48The Elfin Knight (Child 2D)
Anonymous
The Whummil Bore (Child 27) by Francis James Child
Performed by
Francis James ChildThe Whummil Bore (Child 27) Annotated
Seven lang years I hae served the king,
Fa fa fa fa lilly
And I never got a sight of his daughter but ane.
With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,
Lillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally
I saw her thro a whummil bore,
Fa fa fa fa lilly
And I neer got a sight of her no more.
With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,
Lillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally
Twa was putting on her gown,
Fa fa fa fa lilly
And ten was putting pins therein.
With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,
Lillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally
Twa was putting on her shoon,
Fa fa fa fa lilly
And twa was buckling them again.
With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,
Lillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally
Five was combing down her hair,
Fa fa fa fa lilly
And I never got a sight of her nae mair.
With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,
Lillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally
Her neck and breast was like the snow,
Fa fa fa fa lilly
Then from the bore I was forced to go.
With my glimpy, glimpy, glimpy eedle,
Lillum too tee a ta too a tee a ta a tally