15 Jan 99 - 08:11 AM (#54197) Subject: Lyr Add: THE JOLLY LITTLE TAILOR^^ From: George Henderson. I tried to post this yesterday put couldn't get through.
Ceremonial songs. Songs about different ceremonies are very common in the UK. I like a lot of these songs and one which I got from a man called John Knight, long since dead I'm afraid, does not appear to be in the DT data base. It is a New Year song and is a little risque, but great fun : The Jolly Little Tailor |
15 Jan 99 - 09:07 AM (#54207) Subject: RE: Ceremonial songs From: Alan of Australia G'day, Click here For the version in the DT. But this version is significantly different. Cheers, Alan
-Joe Offer- |
04 Dec 00 - 02:43 PM (#351232) Subject: Lyr Add: THE JOLLY LITTLE TAILOR^^ From: GUEST,George Henderson NSC The Jolly Little Tailor
Come ladies and gentlemen and list to what I say,
At a dance one New Years evening this tailor did attend,
The jolly little tailor he drank whisky many's the tot,
Well his breeches he took off and her petticoats he put on,
"Oh bring back me breeches" the tailor did loudly call,
"Oh lord" cried the tailor "forever down I'll be,"
Well the fiddler he played a tune for all that he was worth,
Well when at last this tailor got out into the street,
The jolly little tailor this lady did address,
In a village hear to Whitby town there's old men living yet
And the poor little tailor from that day to this ,
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04 Dec 00 - 03:03 PM (#351240) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jolly Little Tailor From: MMario Hi george! that looks to be the same storyline as The Tailor's Breeches are the tunes similair? |
04 Dec 00 - 04:48 PM (#351299) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jolly Little Tailor From: Anglo I think this is probably the most collected song in England, because all the Folklore students at Sheffield go out and "collect" it (or so I've heard). Sorry, but I forget the name of the source. Martin Carthy sings it on occasion, though he's not recorded it; it was recorded quite a while ago by Derek & Dorothy Elliott. The tune's different from the Purslow set. It's a bit like "Pleasant and Delight ful" in jig time, without the chorus. |
05 Dec 00 - 03:31 AM (#351583) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jolly Little Tailor From: GUEST,George Henderson MMario Yep same story Anglo. I heard Marton Carthy sing this version in Inishowen last year. He is the only person other than my source, John Knight, and myself that I have ever heard singing this version although that would not be unusual as I reside in Ireland and cannot mix with other possible singers of such songs. |
05 Dec 00 - 12:08 PM (#351762) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Jolly Little Tailor From: Anglo I just went and explored my LPs. On the Derek & Dorothy Elliott recording (from 1976), they thank Tony Heald of the Leeds University Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, for permission to use two songs collected by Colin Wharton from the singing of Arthur Wood of Goathland, Yorkshire — The Tailor's Breeches and The Old Woman From Yorkshire. Given the proliferation of recordings of traditional singers I'm surprised the source version isn't available somewhere (it might be, but I don't know of it). |