"Matty Groves" is an English folk ballad that describes an adulterous tryst between a man and a woman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It dates to at least the 17th century, and is one of the Child Ballads (#81) collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child. It has several variant names, including "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard."
Here below is a 17th Century sheet from the Bodleian Library.
Translation of the text above SEE: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/32804/xml
In 1934 Jean Thomas recorded Green Maggard singing a variation of this song ("Lord Daniel") for the Library of Congress.
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And in February 1935 George W. Hibbitt and William Cabell Greet recorded Bascom Lamar Bunsford singing "Lord Daniel's Wife" (also a version of Child #081). Also for the library of Congress.
In 1937 Alan Lomax also recorded some field recordings versions closely connected to "Matty Groves". (Child #081)
In 1938 Sidney Robertson recorded George Vinton Graham singing "Mathy Grove" for the Library of Congress.
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The first officially recorded version I could find is by John Jacob Niles, who recorded a version in 1941 for Victor's Red Seal label.
Listen here for part 1: Little Mattie Groves %28Part 1%29 - John Jacob Niles.mp3
Listen here for part 2: Little Mattie Groves %28concluded%29 - John Jacob Niles.mp3
Or here for complete version:
Contained on the album American Folk Lore (Volume 3) released in October 1941 on the RCA Red Seal label (#824).
This album-set contained four 78's with the following songs:
2171 You got to cross
that lonesome valley ; The lass from the low countree ;
2172 Black is the
color of my true love's hair ; Go 'way from my window ; One morning in May ;
2173 The wife of Usher's Well ; The death of Queen Jane
18087 Little
Mattie Groves (part 1) ; Little Mattie Groves (concluded)
(c) Paul Clayton (1956) (as "Lord Darnell")
Album "Folksongs and Ballads of Virginia"
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(c) Bob Gibson (1957) (as "Matie Groves")
Album "I Come for to Sing"
Label
Riverside Catalog number
RLP 12 806
(c) Jeannie Robertson (1958) (as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard")
Jeannie Robertson sang Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard in Aberdeen in 1958 to Peter Kennedy. This recording was included in 2000 on the extended Rounder re-issue of Volume 4 of The Folk Songs of Britain, Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland Volume 1.
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(c) Jean Ritchie (1961) (as "Little Musgrave")
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On June 2, 1949 Jean Ritchie had already recorded another version of "Little Musgrave" in Alan Lomax's appartment in Greenwich Village, New York City
SEE: Research Center
(c) Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl (1961) (as "Matty Groves")
On album "Two-Way Trip"
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(c) Paul Clayton (1962) (as "Massey Groves")
Album "Dulcimer Songs and Solos"
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(c) Joan Baez September (1962) (as "Matty Groves")
(c) The Spinners (1964) (as "Little Matty Groves")
(c) Hedy West (1966) (as "Little Matty Groves")
(c) Doc Watson (1967) (as "Matty Groves")
(c) Peggy Seeger (1967) (as "Mathie Grove")
(c) Fairport Convention December (1969) (as "Matty Groves")
Fairport Convention's version of "Matty Groves" on the album "Liege and Lief" uses the tune of American variation "Shady Grove (My Darling)" originally recorded by the Prairie Ramblers in 1933.
(c) Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick (1969) (as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard")
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(c) Nic Jones (1970) (as "Little Musgrave")
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(c) Christy Moore (1976) (as "Little Musgrave")
In 2001 a snippet of the song was performed by Emmy Rossum in the movie "Songcatcher"
In 2008 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss performed the song live (following the Fairport adaptation)
(c) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (2008) (as "In the Mood incl. Matty Groves")
Finally here's a version by Tom Waits from his album: "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards" (2009) (as "Mathie Grove")
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