The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150114   Message #3496264
Posted By: MGM·Lion
29-Mar-13 - 05:08 AM
Thread Name: Cross-dressing Men in Traditional Songs?
Subject: RE: Cross-dressing Men in Traditional Songs?
Jim ~~ The Tailor's Breeches is not the same song as the Barrack/Patrick/Peter/Ratcliffe Street series: altho distantly related as having theme of the girl pinching the protagonist's trousers, leaving him to do the best he can with the castoffs she leaves behind, [tho not in this version of yours, where he is left with only his hat to preserve his modesty, leading to jokes like "If you call yourself a gentleman Why don't you raise your hat?', & about Cock o the North, Cuckoo's Nest &c], the situations in which this enormity occurs are quite different.

Agree that The Duke Of Atholl's Nurse a fine song, esp as sung by the great Frankie Armstrong.

~M~