The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37602 Message #4104366
Posted By: keberoxu
02-May-21 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Three Jovial Huntsmen (and related songs)
Subject: RE: Origins: Three Jovial Huntsmen (and related songs)
When Martin Carthy sang this song for his 1st of May live-streamed performance, in a Whitby studio,
he suffered a memory lapse, cursed mildly,
went on to another song, proceeded to the end of the first set,
and came back to the song to complete it in the second set.
In this incarnation in Carthy's repertoire, the song has become
Three [NOT Six] Jovial Welshmen.
He changed the verse about 'the evil one' from whom all ran away,
to be 'Barbara Cartland,' years back.
And he now laments that, Barbara Cartland having up and died,
he will not be singing her name in that verse any longer.
But he has yet to come up with an acceptable (to him) alternative.
And as previously reported, Carthy uses a chorus,
which in the DigiTrad's three variants of this traditional song,
this chorus rarely appears if at all.
He sang it after each and every verse:
Then fill each glass,
and let it pass,
No sign of care betray;
We will drink and sing
While the bells do ring,
All on St. David's Day.