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Thread #15505   Message #1292215
Posted By: Jim Dixon
08-Oct-04 - 08:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Another 'Jolly Tinker'? / Merry Wedding
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Another 'Jolly Tinker'
Sorry, Malcolm, but it looks like the answer is "no." And posting more lyrics IS more interesting than that.

I recognize the song Fulurum posted above. It's one Ed McCurdy sang on one of the albums in his series "When Dalliance Was in Flower and Maidens Lost Their Heads." I think his principal source for that series was Thomas D'Urfey's anthology of songs and poems called "Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy" from 1719. I also know McCurdy often "tinkered" with the songs a bit, matching lyrics to different tunes, adding choruses borrowed from other songs, etc., but in general, I think he did a good job of keeping the songs true to the period.