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Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 16 Jun 20 - 04:48 PM THE DRUNKEN BUTCHER OF TIDESWELL. BY WILLIAM BENNETT, ESQ. Author of “The King of the Peak,” etc., etc., etc. The Ballad I now have the pleasure of presenting to the readers of the “RELIQUARY” (the subject of which is as well known in the Peak as that Kinder Scout is the highest hill, and Tideswell Church the most stately and beautiful Church in it) will perhaps appear a little modernised to some, who have only heard the tale from the mouths of unsober topers, accustomed to use ancient provincial and obsolete words, which not only render the sense less distinguishable, but also mar the flow of the rhythm. I confess, therefore, to having taken some liberties with the grammar, the orthography, and the metre; but, in all other respects, I have strictly adhered to the original; and my honesty in this respect will be recognized and admitted by many persons, to whom these minstrel relics are precious. The legend is still so strong in the Peak, that numbers of the inhabitants do not concur in the sensible interpretation put upon the appearance by the Butcher's wife; but pertinaciously believe that the drunken man was beset by an evil spirit, which either ran by his horse's side, or rolled on the ground before him, faster than his horse could gallop, from Peak Forest to the sacred inclosure of Tideswell Churchyard, where it disappeared; and many a bold fellow, on a moonlight night, looks anxiously round, as he crosses Tideswell Moor, and gives his nag an additional touch of the spur, as he hears the bell of Tideswell Church swinging midnight to the winds, and remembers the tale of the “Drunken Butcher of Tideswell” —
The relevant song is in BOLD. Date is 1861. Pgs 205-208, The Reliquary: A Depository for Precious Relecs -- Legendary, Biographical, and Historical (1861). Edited by Llewellynn Jewitt. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 16 Jun 20 - 06:56 PM A 1907 postcard at Emory University website. It is a color cartoon drawing of three men in tuxedos with text at top right: "Drunk last night Text at bottom: "Copyright 1907 P. Gordon". On reverse: blank. Permanent link for this postcard: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/b39p7 |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: Lighter Date: 16 Jun 20 - 06:59 PM Tulsa World (Feb. 25, 1918), p. 4: We were bombed last night, We were bombed the night before, We're going to be bombed tonight Like we were never bombed before. When we're bombed We're scared as we can be. They can bomb the whole d----- army If they don't bomb me. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 16 Jun 20 - 07:11 PM GLORIOUS SOUSE SONG This is from Glorious Souse Song sheetmusic dated 1916. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 16 Jun 20 - 07:18 PM All at once a peculiar sensation passed over me. I became strangely The Educational Weekly, Dec 18, 1879. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 16 Jun 20 - 07:52 PM All round them, struggling in the dimness over ant-hill and ant-bear hole, From the 1914 book Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley. Pg 308. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 16 Jun 20 - 08:21 PM "Oh, Sarah, come upstairs and lie down. Don't go Pg 408, Esther Waters by George Moore. Printed 1906 in New York with a copyright of 1899. According to Wikipedia, George Moore revised the book several times. This is the earliest I have been able to trace this song in the novel. It may be in the 1894 first edition... I don't know as I can't find a copy of it online. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 17 Jun 20 - 08:04 AM THE DUTCH COMPANY |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 17 Jun 20 - 08:26 AM COLLEGE BELL. Pg 41 from the 1860 book Songs of Amherst. Google books link here. Apparently this song and tune was well know enough that it was used for a parody. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: Lighter Date: 17 Jun 20 - 01:36 PM Oneonta (N.Y.) Star, Feb. 16, 1918: Bombed last night, Bombed the night before, Going to get bombed tonight If I never get bombed any more When we're bombed We're scared as we can be. They can bomb the whole darned army If they don't bomb me. They're over us, they're over us, One tiny cave for the four of us, Glory to God that there aren't any more of us, For one of us could fill it all alone. |
Subject: Origin: Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 29 Dec 23 - 04:25 PM [[Spoken]] We were hard-boiled and swaggering. Double brackets are inserted by me. Transcribed from Band 2 "Games" the LP When I Was a Boy in Brooklyn by Israel Kaplan. 1961. Folkway Records. Available online here: https://folkways.si.edu/israel-kaplan/when-i-was-a-boy-in-brooklyn/oral-history-biography/album/smithsonian |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 06 Jun 24 - 06:39 PM The "Glorious Souse Song" 1916 has a copyright entry: GLORIOUS SOUSE SONG fox trot, words So the copyright is only claiming an arraignment and no copyright at all for the words. Note the "Souse" means "drinking" or "drunk". I can find other references to "souse songs" from 1890s to 1920 and, of course, there is the obsolete term "soused" for being drunk. |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 06 Jun 24 - 06:40 PM A link to the copyright entry: https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyri121libr/page/17/mode/1up?q=%22souse+song%22 |
Subject: RE: good old Dutch & goddam Dutch/Drunk Last Night From: and e Date: 06 Jun 24 - 06:43 PM The "Glorious Souse Song" recorded March 21, 1917 by Prince's Band issued A5971 on Columbia. http://www.centuryoldsounds.com/Columbias/C_A5971-B.mp3 This follows the sheet music to the song. |
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