Come day, go day, God send Sunday

whytek

Would anybody out there have a copy of a book called Come day, go day, God send Sunday - the songs and life story, told in his own words, of John Maguire, traditional singer and farmer from Co. Fermanagh ?

I'm trying to track down a version of words to the story/song of Molly Bán and I had found the one I was looking for in this book (i think) on google books preview, but the preview is no longer available. The one I'm looking for does not use the word trial in "don't leave your country till trial comes on" but it uses another word, which I believe was the word for a travelling court of olden times.

thanks!

K.

Blush_01

I stuck it into google and the first page that came up was this: http://www.amazon.com/Come-Day-God-Send-Sunday/dp/0710076347.

Best of luck!

whytek

Yes, Blush, that's the book all right, it's also indexed in google books, here: http://books.google.com/books?id=c7s9AAAAIAAX but what I would like to know is if this is the book with that version of Molly Bán included in it.

Like I said, the preview used to be available on google books and i think that is where I saw it.

Amazotheamazing

The old word for travelling Court was "assizes". Googling Molly Ban and assizes gives the following page which seems to detail several different versions of the song you're looking for, although it's called Polly Vaughan in these incarnations, if it's any use to you.

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/lloyd/songs/pollyvaughan.html

I'd say keep digging around with "assizes" and you might find the version you're looking for on google.

whytek

ah.. "assizes", that is indeed what is being sung on the version I have.
Brilliant, thanks.