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Thread #159983   Message #3792077
Posted By: CupOfTea
25-May-16 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Naughty rounds - anyone?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Naughty rounds - anyone?
I am willing to bet you will find a plentitude of naughtiness to round if you tap resources in the Rennfaire, Filk or Society for Creative Anachronism communities, should you have such contacts.

At a round singing party, an early music scholar brought in several Purcell catches - a catch essentially being a round. There was one about "Joan" (which we found humorous because that is his wife's name) but the one I'd known from a favourite album was in thr DT as follows:

CAKES AND ALE (CATCH)

(1) I gave her cakes and I gave her ale
I gave her sack and cherry
I kissed her once and I kissed her twice
And we were wanderers merry

(2) I gave her beads and bracelets fine
And I gave her gold down derry
I thought she was a-feared when she struck my beard
And we were wanderers merry

(3) Merry me hearts, merry me cocks, merry me sprites
Merry, merry, merry, merry, merry me hay down derry
I kissed her once and I kissed her twice
And we were wanderers merry

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A catch by Henry Purcell
recorded by the Silly Sisters (June Tabor & Maddy Prior) on
"No more To The Dance" (1988)

@catch @love
filename[ WNDMERRY
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Joanne in Cleveland