Lyr Req: Gelding the Devil

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gelding the Devil
From: Joy Shillaker
Date: 30 Nov 99 - 04:49 AM

thankyou so much for your help. Much appreciated. regards Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gelding the Devil
From: Bruce O.
Date: 29 Nov 99 - 06:31 PM

You can also see 2 lat copies (18th century) on the Bodley Ballads website

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gelding the Devil
From: Bruce O.
Date: 29 Nov 99 - 05:32 PM

The Scots version is no longer in an old Forum thread. It's in DT. Search on 'Gelding'.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gelding the Devil
From: Bruce O.
Date: 29 Nov 99 - 04:02 PM

See ZN2247 in the broadside ballad index at www.erols.com/olsonw for many copies including that in 'Pills to Purge Melancholy' which has one tune for it. Both early tunes are given as ABCs B156 and B157 on my website. Abby Sale contributed the Scots version from the Secret Songs of Silence MS long ago on this Forum "The Baker of the Town of Ayre". [Thanks to Murray on Saltspring, I now have a copy of the MS. Many songs, including this, will be given from the MS in his book 'Musa Proterva'.]

Subject: Gelding the Devil
From: Joy Shillaker
Date: 29 Nov 99 - 03:32 PM

Does anyone have the lyrics for the version of 'Gelding the Devil' which begins "There was a baker of Mansfield town, to Nottingham Market he was bound" please and also the date. thanks a lot Joy