For Solo Piano
Composed by Scott D. Farquhar
Published by: Splunge Music
Item: SM009-3
2 Pages
This tune has what I would call a “whirling” quality to it, which I attempted to enhance in the setting. The chromaticism in the melody helps to enhance the somewhat dark subject matter of the text:
Fanny Blair
Come all you young females wherever you be.
Beware of false swearing and false perjury;
For by a young female I’m wounded full soon,
You see I’m cut down in the height of my bloom.
‘Twas last Monday morn, as I lay on my bed,
A young man came to me, and these words he said:
Rise up, Thomas Hegan, and fly you elsewhere,
For vengeance is sworn you by young Fanny Blair.
O young Fanny Blair, she is eighteen years old,
And, as I must die, the truth I’ll unfold;
I never stole with her in all my lifetime;
It’s a hard thing to die for another one’s crime.
The day of my trial Squire Vernon was there,
and on the green table they handed Miss Blair.
False oaths she’s a-swearing I’m ashamed for to tell,
Till the judge cried: There’s someone has tutor’d you well.
The day that young Hegan was doomed to die,
The people rose up with a murmuring cry:
If we catch her we’ll crop her, she falsely has sworn,
Young Hegan dies innocent we’re all of us sure.
There’s one favour more which I beg of my friends,
To take me to Bloomfield one night by themselves,
And bury my body in Marylemould.
I pray that the great God will pardon my soul.
This is a single movement of the Folksong Suite #1. The complete list of individual pieces in this suite is as follows:
Folksong Suite #1 for Solo Piano
| I. | The Moreen |
| II. | Waltzing Matilda |
| III. | Fanny Blair |
| IV. | A Brisk Young Sailor |
| V. | Green Broom |
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