Makera(waƙar)

"Blacksmith", wanda aka fi sani da "A Blacksmith Courted Me", waƙar gargajiya ce ta Turanci da aka jera a matsayin lamba 816 a cikin Roud Folk Song Index .

 Fassarar gargajiya 
An rubuta wannan waƙar a ƙasa daga wata mata mai suna Mrs. Ellen Powell daga Westhope, kusa da Weobley a Herefordshire, a shekarar 1909, daga Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ana iya samun rubutaccen nau'in waƙar a yanar gizo daga Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. A lokacin da aka rubuta ta, an rera waƙar da amsa da wakar "Monk's Gate", wadda aka fi sani da wakar "To be a pilgrim", waƙar addini da John Bunyan ya rubuta. Ana amfani da wannan irin amsa (tune) a wasu lokuta wajen rera waƙar "Our Captain Cried", wadda ake iya ɗaukarta a matsayin wani nau'in irin wannan waƙar.

**George

Yawancin mawaƙa na gargajiya daga kudancin Ingila sun rubuta waƙoƙin, kamar matafiya Phoebe Smith (1969)  da Caroline Hughes (1963/66),  Harry Brazil na Gloucestershire, George "Pop" Maynard na Sussex (1962),  Tom Willett na Surrey (1960),  Charlie Scamp na Kent (1954). Ana iya jin rikodin Tom Willet, Phoebe Smith, Caroline Hughes da George "Pop" Maynard ta hanyar shafin yanar gizon Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

 Shahararrun rikodin 
An rubuta waƙar sau da yawa. Steeleye Span ya jagoranci kundi biyu na Harka!  na studio Hark! The Village Wait (1970) da Please to See the King (1971) tare da nau'o'i daban-daban na waƙar; ana iya jin sa a kan wasu kundin su na rayuwa. Andy Irvine ya raira shi a kan kundi na farko na Planxty Planxty (1973), Loreena McKennitt a kan Elemental (1985), Pentangle a kan kundin So Early in the Spring (1989),  da Eddi Reader a kan Mirmama (1992). Maddy Prior (na Steeleye Span) kuma tana raira waƙar a cappella a kan kundin solo dinta Ballads and Candles (2000).

Saboda waƙar tana da cikakken tarihi kuma an yayata ta ta hanyar English Folk Dance and Song Society, The Broadside Ballads Project, da kuma Mainly Norfolk, an ɗauki waƙar a cikin waƙofin da Jon Boden da Oli Steadman suka rera domin saka su a cikin jerin waƙofin gargajiya na kowace rana da suka kira "A Folk Song A Day" da kuma "365 Days Of Folk".

Har ila yau, akwai nau'ikan Martin Simpson da Kathy & Carol, The Critics Group, Shirley Collins, "A Blacksmith Courted Me / The Blacksmith". Retrieved 16 Oct 2012. Barbara Dickson a kan kundin Do Right Woman, Phil Cooper a kan kundin Pretty Susan, Scatter the Mud a kan kundin In the Mood . Linda Ronstadt ta ba da fassarar a cappella a kan kundin tarihin 1990 Rubáiyát . Barry Dransfield ya rubuta wani nau'i mai ban mamaki na sauti. Jah Wobble ya rubuta wani nau'in waƙar a cikin kundin sa na 1996 English Roots Music . Ruwa ta rubuta wani Kishi a cikin kundi na farko na Jealousy .

Don rubutun ra'ayi tare da sassan waƙa, duba shafin yanar gizon Reinhard Zierke."A Blacksmith Courted Me / The Blacksmith". Retrieved 16 Oct 2012.

 Kalmomin 
(wanda Ralph Vaughan Williams ya tattara daga Ellen Powell, 1909) 


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