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- The Queen’s Four Maries as widely sung has only a few verses set in Edinburgh, in which Mary Hamilton laments that she is to die, without explaining why. The ballad about Marie Hamilton can have 18 or 25 verses, telling that she had a child by the King of Scotland and had killed it.
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Queen Mary's Song" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are by Tennyson , sung by Queen Mary I of England as she plays a lute in scene 2, act 5 of his 1875 play Queen Mary: A Drama .
The four Marys were Mary, Queen of Scots' ladies-in-waiting, but these were Mary Seton, Mary Beaton, Mary Fleming and Mary Livingston. There was no Mary Carmichael but this popular song was believed to be relating to Mary, Queen of Scots until it was traced back to the court of the Tsar.
This is an ancient and tragic ballad of what happened at the Edinburgh court of the young Mary Queen of Scots. The Queen’s Four Maries as widely sung has only a few verses set in Edinburgh, in which Mary Hamilton laments that she is to die, without explaining why.
A selection of hymns and songs for the month of May - which is dedicated to Mary, and in many northern-hemisphere countries includes features a May-queening ceremony.
In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but precisely which queen is not specified. She becomes pregnant by the Queen's husband, the King of Scots, which results in the birth of a baby.
- The Four Marys. Mary Queen of Scots' ladies in waiting were all called Mary. The Four Marys. Last night there were four Marys Tonight there'll be but three: There was Mary Seaton and Mary Beaton And Mary Carmichael and me. Word's gane tae the kitchen And word's gane tae the hall That Mary Hamilton's great wi' child
The words are by Tennyson, sung by Queen Mary I of England as she plays a lute in scene 2, act 5 of his 1875 play Queen Mary: A Drama. [1] It was composed between 14 June and 1 July 1889, and dedicated to J. H. Meredith, an honorary member of the Worcester Amateur Instrumental Society.
