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Thread #19427 Message #1377991
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Jan-05 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Penguin: On Monday Morning
Subject: RE: Penguin: On Monday Morning
Here are the notes from Penguin:On Monday Morning (FSJ III 315)
Baring Gould, who describes this as a song 'relished by married men', found an early set in a collection of stall balladry, West Country Garlands, date about 1760. He obtained a version from the singing of Robert Hard of South Brent, Devon, which he called "A Week's Work Well Done" BGSW (238—9). Our version is sung to a variant of the well-known Turpin Hero tune. Frank Kidson had information that the song was sung by Grimaldi the clown, about
1820.