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Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: banjomad (inactive) Date: 17 Jan 03 - 09:41 PM Hollowfox, contact Professor Vic Gammon, Leeds University, Leeds West Yorkshire, England |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: Geoff the Duck Date: 17 Jan 03 - 09:00 PM No lyrics on the CD - just background information about the tracks. There was a Mudcat thread a few weeks back about "The Tunnyng Of Elynour Rummyng" with web link to a ful set of words. It's too late to look it up before I go to sleep.... Quack! GtD. |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: Susanne (skw) Date: 17 Jan 03 - 07:02 PM I can but agree with Dick - I've got the CD and managed to transcribe a few songs, but there were no lyrics with the CD and it's quite hard work. Can't help with the project just now, I'm afraid, as my PC refuses to open my database programme, but will gladly share what I've got later on. Meanwhile, we had another thread on this - or on individual songs, perhaps - that might provide a start. |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: dick greenhaus Date: 17 Jan 03 - 06:25 PM CAMSCO carries the CD--highly recommended. I'm not home at the moment, but when I get there I'll see if lyrics are included. BTW,what the hell do you mean "only a matter of transcribing the songs"? |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: Hollowfox Date: 17 Jan 03 - 04:37 PM I only have the casette, and even though I'm a cheapskate, I'd pay good money for lyrics and notes. I'd even buy the cd if it came with them! Does anyone have an address of any kind for Professor Gammon? Even if this project doesn't get off the ground, there's a question I'd like to ask him. |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: Schantieman Date: 17 Jan 03 - 01:15 PM I've got a real LP of it - I think it's got the words. Let m know if you want it. Steve |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: banjomad (inactive) Date: 16 Jan 03 - 02:48 PM Contact Prof Vic Gammon at Leeds University. He's the man who did it |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: Dave Bryant Date: 16 Jan 03 - 10:56 AM I take it that you do have a copy of the Cassette ? We've got one - if you want a copy let me know. Surely then it's only a matter of transcribing the songs. |
Subject: RE: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: Naemanson Date: 16 Jan 03 - 10:53 AM I have The Tale Of Ale on CD and I think it came with liner notes and lyrics. I'll have to check when I get home. |
Subject: Lyr Add: O Good Ale! thou art my darling From: Bruce O. Date: 23 Apr 99 - 04:13 PM "Good Ale for my money" is by Laurence Price, and is in the Price file on my website (with tune) "London's Ordinary" is a broadside expansion of a song in Haywood's 'The Rape of Lucrece' "Allan a Mault", 16th century song, is in the Scarce Songs 1 file on my websites, as are "Four Drunken Maidens" and "Watkins Ale", and some others bacchanalian. "John Appleby" (a text of 1828), preceeded by Martin Parker's ballad on which it was based are in the Scarce Songs 2 file on my website. The texts from Ravenscrofts books (and Lant manuscript) are on the SCA Minstrel website, and the older ones are mostly in R. H. Robbins 'Secular Lyrics' or Chambers and Sidgwick's 'Early English Lyrics'. The 17th century broadside versions of the John Barleycorn ballads and Mas. Mault was a Gentleman are listed in the broadside ballad index on my website, as are "Joan's Ale is new", "Nick and Froth", "Jack Hadland's Lamentation", "The leather Bottle" (in DT), "Wade's Reformation", "I owe my hostess money", etc. If you let in songs about gin, you open to door for those on Sack, ("Muld-sack", broadside) Port, Sherry, Canary, Muscadine, and Whisky. There are many drinking songs in Pills to Purge Melancholy, of which you have a few in your list. Some books of drinking songs are: Also, search DT for 'beer' and 'ale'.
[From 'The Banquet of Thalia', a songbook without music, p. 84, York, [1792]
O GOOD ALE THOU ART MY DARLING
The brewer brew'd thee in his pan,
And if my wife should thee dispise,
Thou oft hath made my friends my foes,
[The Copper family sings this so you can swipe the tune.]
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Subject: Project: Lyrics from 'The Tale of Ale' From: rob d Date: 23 Apr 99 - 01:59 PM Well, the Kipper Family project is winding down. Nothing new for about a week, so I'm thinking of taking a cut. Do people out there want the final result, shall I post it all here, email it to them, et cetera? Anyway, this is my other pet project: The finest album of beer songs ever made is/was The Tale Of Ale -- The Story of the Englishman and his Beer Ummm, Free Reed I think. Sadly, it was supposed to come with a lyric sheet but did not, and I gave up looking a long time ago (anybody have one, Let me Know!) Anyway, here's a list of the songs on the album. '*' is one that I do have lyrics to, "^" is one that I would desperately like to find lyrics to. Anybody??? Oh, and some of the cuts are narrative, not song (I'll mark those with a '!'. This is wonderful stuff, and I would dearly love to put together a lyric sheet with all of these on it. I did see a book in a library once (can't remember where, 41YO, you see) that was a collection of many only ale and beer songs, which is where I picked up a few of these. Anybody know of a book like that?
"The Tale Of Ale : The Story of the Englishman and his Beer"
*Bring Us In Good Ale |
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