The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48587   Message #730652
Posted By: Mr Red
15-Jun-02 - 05:50 PM
Thread Name: Does the Devil have the best tunes?
Subject: RE: Does the Devil have the best tunes?
Not quite Church but
When I sang "A trooper watering his Nagg" at the Redditch FF a woman thanked me for singing the whole of it. She had known it in her yout as a single verse nursery rhyme (There was an old woman lived underneath the hill, and if she's not dead then she's living there still).
So it was bawdy in 1717 and described as an "old" song by Thomas D'Urfey, she found it as a kiddies song and got it back as a bawdy song again.