The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50227   Message #761215
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
07-Aug-02 - 07:49 AM
Thread Name: You blind fool you drunken fool/4 Nights Drunk
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You blind fool, you drunken fool
That set was Child's "A" text, and isn't in the DT; Abbey Sale posted a version from Ewan MacColl a while back, though, which retains the form, including the spoken interjections. I see that Joe has added it to the list of links above (Yet another OUR GOODMAN). Herd's is the earliest known example of the song, and well worth mentioning. Bruce Olson posted it, with corrections and tune from SMM, in one of the earlier threads indicated above; specifically:

Our goodman came hame at e'en

It turns out that I put a partial list of links to other discussions in one of the earlier threads, though not so comprehensive as Joe and Pene's in this. That might explain my earlier feeling of déjà vu.