Lady Maisry from Mayday by Lady Maisery
In contrast, Lady Maisry comes from a wealthy family, but her social position eventually affords her less freedom than the factory girl. For centuries, women from aristocratic families were often married-off to in order to forge political alliances. Lady Maisry’s attempts to instead marry for love and assert her own sexual freedom end drastically in what we might call an ‘honour killing’ today. We collated our text from various versions in the Child Ballad collection. The tune was collected by George Gardiner from David Clements of Basingstoke in January 1909.
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