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Thread #51888   Message #798858
Posted By: masato sakurai
08-Oct-02 - 09:16 AM
Thread Name: Help: Origin of Villikins & Dinah tune
Subject: RE: Help: Origin of Villikins&Dinah tune
"All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough" is sung to the tune of "Villikins and His Dinah" by Bob Mills (Retired herdsman, Alredford, Hampshire) on An English Folk Music Anthology (Folkways, 1981)[LP]. The lyrics (of a different version) are posted by Snuffy HERE. However, the tune in S. Baring-Gould, Songs of the West, new and revised ed. (Methuen, [1905], p. 130) is different.

Two sheets are in the Bodleian Library broadisde collection, without tune names.

Printer: Catnach, J. (London)
Date: between 1813 and 1838
Imprint: J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials
Ballads on sheet: 1
Copies:
Johnson Ballads 148   
Ballads: 1. All jolly fellows that follow the plough ("When four o'clock comes then up we rise ...")
Subject: Agricultural laborers
Note: Slip

Printer: Harkness, J. (Preston)
Date: between 1840 and 1866
Imprint: John Harkness, Printer, 121 & 122, Church street; Office -- North Road, Preston. Printer's Series: (647).
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 2
Copies: 2806 c.13(136)
Ballads: 1. A loving wife's appeal to her profligate husband. A recitation ("The ardent lover cannot find a coldness in his fair unkind ...")
2. All jolly fellows that follow the plough ("When four o' clock comes then up we rise ...")
Subject: Agricultural laborers

~Masato