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Thread #158333   Message #3743684
Posted By: Bat Goddess
13-Oct-15 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: Wife selling - songs, poems etc
Subject: RE: Wife selling - songs, poems etc
"Johnny Lad" which I learned from Curmudgeon (Tom Hall) who got it from a Ewan MacColl recording --

"I bought a wife in Dunbar for a bawbee
And then I got a farthing back to buy tobacco wi' "

and

"I Went to Market" (recorded by The Watersons) --

"I went to market to buy a wife, the wife did very well please me
And every time I fed my wife, I fed her all under a tree.
And my wife said 'dammit', the cow went moo, the sheep went baa,
    the pig went (snort), the goose went cackle, the duck went quack,
    the hen went caddle-ca,
Cock went cock-a-cock-a-doodle doo.
And after every farmer's cock did my cock crow."

Just two that came immediately to mind.

Linn