Lyr Req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song

Subject: I know a Milk maid
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 03:54 PM

"Does any body on Mudcaters know the continuation of this verse.
I am trying to learn Napoleonic folk songs and from what a character told me today in Greenwich apparently it is.
I quote

I know a Milk maid
Who milked a Bull
'she sure got
"A bucket full?
A Bucket full
A Bucket Full
I knew a Milk Maid
Who Milked a Bull.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 21 Jun 10 - 05:44 PM

I,ll take the above
"Has a No Then?
Impatience to the last Pierre?

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 07:39 AM

I have found it .
Its is not a song in its self but a verse from a song entitled "Martin"Old English Folk songs.
Its has appeared in the televised Napoleonic series " Sharp" and on the film Wicker man with Edward wood ward?
I correct the above verse.

I know a Milk Maid
who Milked a Bull,
With every stroke ,
A bucket Full

"A Bucket full
A bucket Full
With every stroke
a Bucket full

I know a milk maid who milked a cow?
The silly Lass
she did not know how,
fumbling and guessing
she pulled wrong tit
poor milk maid covered in sh and so on.

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 22 Jun 10 - 10:46 AM

WHO'S THE FOOL NOW or MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN DT SongID=7860

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 23 Jun 10 - 04:52 PM

Thanks Desert Dancer, Excellent"
Kind regards Pierre.

Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song
From: pavane
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 04:56 AM

Also a verse from another (childrens) song:

Oh Mary, oh Mary was milking a cow
Milking a cow and she didn't know how
She pulled at the tail instead of the tit
And all she got back was a bucket of ... sweet violets,
etc

Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song
From: pavane
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 04:58 AM

Tune to that one was Villikens and his Dinah, a.k.a. Sweet Betsy from Pike

Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 24 Jun 10 - 06:10 AM

Not sure what the Napoleonic connection might be. Who's The Fool Now has been published in England since ~1600.

Mick

Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 25 Jun 10 - 08:15 PM

Hi Mick
"I put it to you "Sir"
Whose the more foolish"
The Fool ?
Or the bloody fool who follows him?
"Duck of Wellington Said :That"
Ima going to bed "
"I said that"
Regard Pierre>

Subject: Lyr Add: WELL DONE LIAR (from Cecil Sharp)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Oct 11 - 10:59 PM

From The Idiom of the People: English Traditional Verse by Cecil J. Sharp & James Reeves (London: Heinemann [1958]), page 221:


WELL DONE LIAR

I saw a wren kill a man
Well done Liar
I saw a wren kill a man
Give him his due
I saw a wren kill a man
With a dag in his hand
Isn't that a comical thing to be true

I saw a maid milk a bull
Well done Liar
I saw a maid milk a bull
Give him his due
I saw a maid milk a bull
Every stroke a bucket full
Isn't that a comical thing to be true