The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80517   Message #1470033
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Apr-05 - 08:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nous etions trois soldats
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nous etions trois soldats
Another related song, ultimately from the same source (Thomas D'Urfey's anthology of songs and poems called "Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy" from 1719), is TRAVELERS THREE in the DT. I believe those lyrics are the same ones Ed McCurdy sang on one of the albums in his bawdy series "When Dalliance Was in Flower and Maidens Lost Their Heads." He took songs from d'Urfey and modified them in various ways, for example, modernizing any obscure words. I believe the original refrain was "Without ever a stiver of money."