{"id":57,"date":"2013-06-23T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:38:27","slug":"pleasant-and-delightful","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant and Delightful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL is a song that was first published in its current form around 1810, although some sources indicate that this specific version comes from about 1840.\u00a0 Recently, I have learned that it is the recurring theme melody utilized on a very good BBC trilogy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/totheends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To The End Of The Earth<\/a>.\u00a0 In the folk-revival period of the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s, it was one of the more popular songs, especially as most folk singers had a limited repertoire until people began to delve into earlier collections to expand their knowledge.\u00a0 I first heard it from the singing of John Millar, and Cliff would sometimes also cover it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1040115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-353\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1040115-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"P1040115\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1040115-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1040115-1024x933.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1040115-624x568.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/P1040115.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Pleasand-and-Delightful-sample.mp3\">Pleasant and Delightful sample<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My hero Louis[a Jo] Killen singing this wonderful song!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WG6lxxtOn3M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer&#8217;s morn,<br \/>\nWhen the green fields and the meadows they were covered in corn,<br \/>\nAnd the blackbirds and thrushes sang on every green spray,<br \/>\nAnd the larks they sang melodious at the dawning of the day.<br \/>\n|: <em><strong>And the larks they sang melodious<\/strong> <\/em>:|<br \/>\n<em><strong>And the larks they sang melodious at the dawning of the day.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well a sailor and his true love were out walking that day.<br \/>\nSaid the sailor to his true love, &#8220;I am bound far away;<br \/>\nI am bound for the West Indies, where the loud cannons roar,<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m going to leave my Nancy, she&#8217;s the girl that I adore.&#8221;<br \/>\n|: <strong><em>And I\u2019m going to leave my Nancy<\/em> <\/strong>:|<br \/>\n<strong><em>And I\u2019m going to leave my Nancy, she\u2019s the girl that I adore.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Said the sailor to his true love, \u201cWell, I must be on my way,<br \/>\nFor blue peter*, it is hoisted, and our anchor\u2019s a-weigh;<br \/>\nOur ship, she lies a-waiting for the next flowing tide,<br \/>\nAnd if ever I return again, I will make you my bride.&#8221;<br \/>\n|: <strong><em>And if ever I return again<\/em> <\/strong>:|<br \/>\n<strong><em>And if ever I return again, I will make you my bride.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then the ring from off her finger she instantly drew<br \/>\nSaying, &#8220;Take this, dearest William, and my heart will go, too.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd as he embraced her, tears from her eyes fell,<br \/>\nSaying, &#8220;May I go along with you?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, no, my love, farewell.&#8221;<br \/>\n|: <strong><em>Saying, &#8220;May I go along with you?&#8221;<\/em> <\/strong>:|<br \/>\n<strong><em>Saying, &#8220;May I go along with you?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, no, my love, farewell!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Blue Peter: A blue flag with a white center, hoisted to denote the immediate departure of a vessel. \u201cTo hoist the Blue Peter\u201d (the signal flag &#8220;P&#8221;) is still used to signify readiness to depart.\u00a0 In the commonly sung lyric, it is stated that &#8220;the topsails are hoisted&#8221;, which would signify that the ship was already underway, and the sailor indeed late to report! I changed it to his seeing the blue peter, which was the call to repair aboard.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6579\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/p__04145-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/p__04145-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/p__04145-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/p__04145-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/p__04145-624x508.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/p__04145.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL is a song that was first published in its current form around 1810, although some sources indicate that this specific version comes from about 1840.\u00a0 Recently, I have learned that it is the recurring theme melody utilized on a very good BBC trilogy To The End Of The Earth.\u00a0 In the folk-revival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/6580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}