Years ago I saw a song book titled "Bawdy Songs", that
was published in England. it was most either bawdy
British Isles Folksongs or English Music Hall type
songs. I am trying to track down a copy of it. Has
anyone heard of it?
Thanks,
Elheran
--- Bruce Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
> >
> > Oe'r The Castle Wall: full length CD of ballads
> from the Anglo-Celtic tradition of
> > heartwarming, tragic, nasty and thoroughly vicious
> wee stories about lovers, murder,
> > elopement, and the healthy couldn't-care-a-toss
> attitude of man towards his fellow
> > woman... http://www.mp3.com/stations/castlewall
> >
> > Lo-fi play:
> >
> >
>
http://chooser.mp3.com/cgi-bin/play/play.cgi/AAICQgAAAADABG5vcm1QBQAAAFL8PwIAUQoAAABD32doOvmDm7u4AR_B08paCmcsZZU-/oer_the_castle_wall.m3u
> >
> > Hi-fi (128Kb modem/cable or ISDN)
> >
> >
>
http://chooser.mp3.com/cgi-bin/play/play.cgi/AAIBQgAAAADABG5vcm1QBQAAAFL8PwIAUQoAAABD32doOuiHr6l1fFYVxu.VVQbQJbw-/oer_the_castle_wall.m3u
> >
> > Tracklist:
> >
> > Blackwater Side - classic Anglo-Irish song which
> includes getting naked
> > Matty Groves - classic Anglo-anywhere song, which
> includes getting naked
> > Ritchie Storey - little known Scottish song which
> is fully clothed throughout
> > She Moved Through The Fair - classic fake folk
> song, fun to ham up. Modal.
> > Twa Corbies - dreech Scots poem set to a Breton
> air, strictly for the birds
> > Annochie Gordon - great words, guaranteed to clear
> any pub in eight minutes
> > The Trees They Do Grow High - from the days before
> the age of consent at 16
> > Young Waters - nasty Scots king chops head off
> good looking lad
> > Jack O'Ryan - apprentice Irish fiddler nicks
> boss's groupie by trick. Familiar?
> > Willie o'Winsbury - Scots king comes out of
> closet. Can't resist that red silk.
> > Baron o'Brackley - wife shames husband into
> outnumbered fight... on purpose!
> >
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> Sent a man to your 'nasty old' collection today. His
> wife sings
> "Huntingtower" based on "Rtchie Story". His voice
> and his wife's don't
> match well, so they can't do it as a duet as Ewan
> MacColl and his mother
> (Betsy Miller) did it (Folk-Lyric LP FL 116).
> (MacColl did
> "Richie Story" on Riverside later, Washington, LP
> 716 (and "Lang
> a-growing on the followup to the 8 Child ballads
> record, Riverside
> LP 12-629= Washington 723).
>
> Jamie Moreira has just about finished the late
> Norman Buchan's
> edition of the Glenbuchat Ballads MS. (to be
> published in 4
> vols). This seems to the the sole source for the
> early "Young
> Graigston" (Lang a-growing")
>
> Bruce Olson
>
> Old English, Irish and, Scots: popular songs, tunes,
> broadside
> ballads at my website (no advs-spam, etc)-
> www.erols.com/olsonw
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