Re: [HG] HG-sighting on TV

[apeekstok]

The lyrics to the version I am familiar with can be found here:

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/unknown-watkins-ale-lyrics.html


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From: "Gerald Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> RE "Watkins Ale" I have looked up the botes on the York Waits CD "1588 - 
> Music 
> from the Time of the Spanish Armada"
> 
> This says  "Mother Watkins was a brothel keeper and "Watkins Ale" was a 
> euphemism for her merchandise.  A critic of 1592 was surpised that anyone ' 
> would bee so impudent to print such odious and lascivious ribaldrie, as 
> Watkins 
> Ale'.  The words are very funny if rather rude."
> 
> I have the music but have not yet come across the words.
> 
> Gerald

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RE "Watkins Ale" I have looked up the botes on the York Waits CD "1588 - Music from the Time of the Spanish Armada"   This says  "Mother Watkins was a brothel keeper and "Watkins Ale" was a euphemism for her merchandise.  A critic of 1592 was surpised that anyone ' would bee so impudent to print such odious and lascivious ribaldrie, as Watkins Ale'.  The words are very funny if rather rude."   I have the music but have not yet come across the words.   Gerald

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