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Thread #4216   Message #22621
Posted By: Bruce O.
01-Mar-98 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: LYR ADD: Put in All
Subject: LYR ADD: Put in All
[Put in All, from 'Pills to Purge Melancholy', VI, p. 251, 1720] A Song

A Young Man and a Maid, put in all, put in all,
Together lately play'd, put in all;
The Young Man was in Jest,
O the Maid she did protest:
She bid him do his best, put in all, put in all.

With that her rowling Eyes, put, &c.
Turn'd upward to the Skies, pur, &c.
My Skin is White you see,
My Smock above my Knee,
What wou'd you more of me, put, &v.

I hope my Neck and Breast, put, &c.
Lie open to your chest, put in all,
The Young Man was in heat,
The Maid did soundly Sweat,
A little farther get, put, &c.

According to her Will, put, &c.
This Young Man try'd his Skill, put in all;
But the proverb plain does tell,
That use them ne'er so well,
For an Inch they'd take an Ell, put, &c.

When they had ended sport, put, &c.
She found haim all too short, put in all;
For when he'd done his best,
The Maid she did protest,
'Twas nothing but a Jest, put in all, put in all.

[Can anyone explain the 'Jest' better than the following? In the early 17th century, lovemaking was termed 'A jest as Chaucer meant', but I don't know what in Chaucer's works this refers to. We also have in an early 17th century play what appears as a rhymed seduction of a Quaker woman that was later slightly revised into a song "Fuller's Jest".]

Does anyone have a copy of the tune of "Captain Kidd" earlier than #4 below? Does anyone know where that tune came from?

X:1
T:A Song, 'Pills', VI, 1720
N:(song is "Put in all")
L:1/4
M:C|
K:Gm
d|DGGA|B2AB|c2BA|B3D|DGGA|B2AG|D3A|Bcde|f2d2|\
cBAG|^F3D|DGGA|B2d^F|G2G^F|G3|]

X:2
T:Put in all
N:24 new Country Dances for the Year 1708
L:1/4
M:C
K:Dm
A|Adde|f2gf|ecef|f3e|f^cde|f2ed|A3||e|\
fgab|c'2ba|gfed|^c3A|Adde|f2a^c|d2d^c|d3|]

X:3
T:Admiral Benbow
N:"Come all you sailors bold, lend and ear, lend an ear" N:from 'The Vocal Enchantress', 1783
L:1/4
Q:156
M:C|
K:Ddorian
A/|dd(^c/d/) (e/c/)|A2FA|c2Ae|g3(f/e/)|f(e/d/) (^c/d/) e/c/|\
A2FA|d3||(d/e/)|ffaa|g2(fe)|f(e/d/) (g/f/) (e/d/)|\
{d/}^c2zG|Adeg|f2(f/e/) (d/^c/)|d2A^c|d3G|\
Adfg|f2(f/e/) (d/^c/)|d2A^c|d3|]

X:4
T:Captain Kidd
N:Helen Johnson's 'Our Familiar Songs', 1881
L:1/8
M:2/4
K:Gm
(.F3/2 G/)|B G A G|^F2D D|G2 ^F3/2 G/|A2 (.F3/2 G/)|\
B G A G|^F2A B|.G2zA|B A B c|d2 d d|(c3/2 B/) A B|\
.c2 (.D3/2 A/)|B G A G|^F2A B|.G2|]