The Art of the Bawdy Song
Through these bawdy catches and ballads we journey to the taverns and other social gathering-places of the real Merry Old England. We may be shocked by the directness of these mostly 300 year old texts (especially those on a scatological theme), but we must remember that in the days before indoor plumbing and pooper-scooper laws, everyday life was of an earthier flavor than it is today. - Mary Anne Ballard
Tracks
- Aniseed Robin
- Cuckolds all a-row
- I gave her cakes and I gave her ale, Z. 256
- Taking his Beer with Old Anacharsis
- Fie, nay prithee, John
- Cold and Raw
- The miller's daughter riding to the fair
- Will Said to his Mammy
- The Old Fumbler
- Walking in a Meadowe Greene
- Celia Learning on the Spinnet
- Tom the Taylor
- My lady's coachman John, Z. 260
- The Irish Jig, "The Night Ramble"
- Come sirrah Jacke hoe
- Dainty Fine Aniseed Water
- Most Men do Love the Spanish Wine
- Argeers
- Gathering Peascods
- My lady and her Maid
- As Roger last night to Jenny lay close, Z. 242
- Pox on you for a fop, Z. 268
- Ladie lie near me
- Tis Women Makes Us Love
- Sir Walter enjoying his damsel, Z. 273
- My Thing Is My Own
- Here dwells a pretty Maid
- My man John
- When first Amyntas sued for a Kiss
- Almande Gratie, SwWV 318, "More Palatino"
- Poor Owen
- Where They drank
- Come, let us drink, Z. 245
