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Young Hunting
"Young Hunting" is a traditional folk song, Roud 47, catalogued by Francis James Child as Child Ballad number 68,〔Francis James Child, ''Popular English and Scottish Ballads'' Volume II: 54-113 Transcriptions available at (Sacred Texts: "Young Hunting" )〕 and has its origin in Scotland. Like most traditional songs, numerous variants of the song exist worldwide, notably under the title of "Henry Lee" and "Love Henry" in the United States and "Earl Richard" and sometimes "The Proud Girl" in the United Kingdom.
The song, which can be traced back as far as the 18th century, narrates the tale of the eponymous protagonist, Young Hunting, who tells a woman, who may have borne him a child, that he is in love with another, more beautiful woman. Despite this, she persuades him to drink until he is drunk, then to come to her bedroom, or at least kiss her farewell. The woman then stabs him to death. She throws his body in the river — sometimes with the help of one of the other women of the town, whom she bribes with a diamond ring — and is taunted by a bird. She tries to lure the bird down from the tree but it tells her that she will kill it if it comes within reach. When the search for Young Hunting starts, she either denies seeing him or claims that he left earlier, but when Hunting's remains are found, in order to revoke her guilt, she reveals that she murdered him and is later burned at the stake. Nick Cave, who covered the song, referred to the song as "a story about the fury of a scorned woman."〔Nick Cave. "This song is an old Scottish murder ballad that I read in a book somewhere and played around with. It's, um, a story about the fury of a scorned woman." Extracts from a performance at BBC's ''Songwriters' Circle'' in 1999. Video of performance available (on YouTube. ) Retrieved on April 4, 2011.〕
==Variants and origins==
American variants of the song are more widely known as the song has been physically released. One of the earliest recorded variants was performed by blues singer Dick Justice in 1929 under the title "Henry Lee." The recording was anthologised in the first of Harry Smith's ''Anthology of American Folk Music'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2426 )〕 released in 1952. Judy Henske included a version of the song titled "Love Henry" — a title collected by Cecil Sharp in September 1916 from Orilla Keeton in Mountfair, Virginia — on her eponymous debut album〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.judyhenske.com/judyhenske.php )〕 in 1983. Australian post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds covered the song under the title "Henry Lee", which was based lyrically on Dick Justice's version,〔 with English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey in 1995. This version was included as a track on the band's 1996 album ''Murder Ballads''.
English variants of the song, which are closely structed on the original Scottish versions, are also known under the titles "Earl Richard" and "The Proud Girl." A version of the song, credited as "Earl Richard", was recorded by English folk singer Tim Hart in 1969 and its liner notes state: "(song ) () is a shorter version of the ballad 'Young Hunting.' () this version comes from Motherwell's ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border''." John Spiers and Jon Bode recorded a version of the English variant in 2001 on the album ''Through & Through'' and credited the author as "Miss Stephenson of Glasgow" and said it was written in 1825.〔 "The Proud Girl" is an arrangement of the song by A.L. Lloyd that was performed at the Top Lock Folk Club in Runcorn, Cheshire on November 5, 1972. This performance, which was the basis of Frankie Armstrong's 1997 version, was released in 2010 on ''An Evening with A.L. Lloyd''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Evening-L-Lloyd/dp/B003UT62BY )〕 and was noted to have been traced back three generations further.
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