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Thread #7262 Message #1062044
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
27-Nov-03 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: The Good Old Cause
Subject: RE: The Good Old Cause
A rather longer broadside example of 1681 can be seen at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:
A proper new Brummigham ballad to the tune of Hey then up go we
According to Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966, 146) the song was written by Francis Quarles c.1641, and the burden gave rise to a popular tune title of the 1680s (as in the broadside). Early printings appeared without tune direction, but by 1662 the song was being reprinted with Cuckolds all a-row specified.