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Lyr Req: The Ratcatcher's Daughter In Mudcat MIDIs: The Ratcatcher's Daughter |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ratcatchers Daughter From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 10 Apr 00 - 05:35 PM It's in the Levy sheet music collection (Mudcat's Links) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ratcatchers Daughter From: Ed Pellow Date: 10 Apr 00 - 05:10 PM Bruce O, Would be most grateful if you could provide the extra verses here. Thanks Ed |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ratcatchers Daughter From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 10 Apr 00 - 01:10 PM There are 9 verses (8 lines each) and a little spoken dialogue in a copy of it on a 19th song sheet photocopyed in Leslie Shepard's 'The Broadside Ballad', p. 152, 1962. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ratcatchers Daughter From: GUEST,Ed Pellow Date: 10 Apr 00 - 07:00 AM The words I've supplied here seem unfinished to me. Is there a final verse or two that I'm missing? Thanks Ed |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ratcatchers Daughter From: GUEST Date: 09 Apr 00 - 12:24 PM Elsa Lancaster sang it on a phono record I have. |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE RATCATCHER'S DAUGHTER^^ From: Ed Pellow Date: 09 Apr 00 - 06:10 AM The Ratcatcher's Daughter Not long ago, in Westminster Do dul dee Now rich and poor, both far and near Do dul dee To ratcatcher's daughter, he ran in and said Do dul dee They both agreed to married be Do dul dee A tragic ditty telling of love between a seller of sprats and a vendor of white sand (used for cleaning knives, lining bird cages, and other purposes). The lyrics are by a clergyman, the Rev. E. Bradley, and the song was first performed by the popular singer Sam Cowell. In 'Out of Season' Charles Dickens notices the sheet music for the Ratcatcher's Daughter in a music shop 'having every polka with a coloured frontispiece that ever was published'. The original is in cockney dialect. You can here a real audio of the song here I'm sure that there should be a couple more verses, maybe someone else can help. Ed Click to play |
Subject: Ratcatchers Daughter From: scouse Date: 09 Apr 00 - 04:56 AM I used to sing this song in the 70's. It's I surpose a London street song,I think it was also song by a ??John Forman. If I'm right can any one tell if Forman is still around and help with the Lyrics. Thanks |
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