LYR ADD: Put in All

Subject: LYR ADD: Put in All
From: Bruce O.
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 12:25 PM

[Put in All, from 'Pills to Purge Melancholy', VI, p. 251, 1720] A Song

A Young Man and a Maid, put in all, put in all,
Together lately play'd, put in all;
The Young Man was in Jest,
O the Maid she did protest:
She bid him do his best, put in all, put in all.

With that her rowling Eyes, put, &c.
Turn'd upward to the Skies, pur, &c.
My Skin is White you see,
My Smock above my Knee,
What wou'd you more of me, put, &v.

I hope my Neck and Breast, put, &c.
Lie open to your chest, put in all,
The Young Man was in heat,
The Maid did soundly Sweat,
A little farther get, put, &c.

According to her Will, put, &c.
This Young Man try'd his Skill, put in all;
But the proverb plain does tell,
That use them ne'er so well,
For an Inch they'd take an Ell, put, &c.

When they had ended sport, put, &c.
She found haim all too short, put in all;
For when he'd done his best,
The Maid she did protest,
'Twas nothing but a Jest, put in all, put in all.

[Can anyone explain the 'Jest' better than the following? In the early 17th century, lovemaking was termed 'A jest as Chaucer meant', but I don't know what in Chaucer's works this refers to. We also have in an early 17th century play what appears as a rhymed seduction of a Quaker woman that was later slightly revised into a song "Fuller's Jest".]

Does anyone have a copy of the tune of "Captain Kidd" earlier than #4 below? Does anyone know where that tune came from?

X:1
T:A Song, 'Pills', VI, 1720
N:(song is "Put in all")
L:1/4
M:C|
K:Gm
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cBAG|^F3D|DGGA|B2d^F|G2G^F|G3|]

X:2
T:Put in all
N:24 new Country Dances for the Year 1708
L:1/4
M:C
K:Dm
A|Adde|f2gf|ecef|f3e|f^cde|f2ed|A3||e|\
fgab|c'2ba|gfed|^c3A|Adde|f2a^c|d2d^c|d3|]

X:3
T:Admiral Benbow
N:"Come all you sailors bold, lend and ear, lend an ear" N:from 'The Vocal Enchantress', 1783
L:1/4
Q:156
M:C|
K:Ddorian
A/|dd(^c/d/) (e/c/)|A2FA|c2Ae|g3(f/e/)|f(e/d/) (^c/d/) e/c/|\
A2FA|d3||(d/e/)|ffaa|g2(fe)|f(e/d/) (g/f/) (e/d/)|\
{d/}^c2zG|Adeg|f2(f/e/) (d/^c/)|d2A^c|d3G|\
Adfg|f2(f/e/) (d/^c/)|d2A^c|d3|]

X:4
T:Captain Kidd
N:Helen Johnson's 'Our Familiar Songs', 1881
L:1/8
M:2/4
K:Gm
(.F3/2 G/)|B G A G|^F2D D|G2 ^F3/2 G/|A2 (.F3/2 G/)|\
B G A G|^F2A B|.G2zA|B A B c|d2 d d|(c3/2 B/) A B|\
.c2 (.D3/2 A/)|B G A G|^F2A B|.G2|]

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Put in All
From: Bruce O.
Date: 01 Mar 98 - 03:17 PM

According to James Dick in 'The Songs of Robert Burns' p. 464, the tune below is a version of "Put in All" in 'Pills'. Since the original of "Ye Jacobites" that I cited from a chapbook was to "Captain Kid", then the original "Chimney Sweep = Coming down/ Captain Kidd" is most likely this tune. What is probably the definitive work on this is an article I don't have, Bertrand Bronson's 'Sam Hall's Family Tree' in 'The Ballad as Song', 1969. Steve Roud's broadside index lists several copies of "Admiral Benbow" (note that there are two that go by this and other titles), but none contains a tune direction.

X:1
T:Ye Jacobites by Name
N:'Scots Musical Museum', #371 (1792)
L:1/8
M:C
K:Am
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A3/2 B/ A G E2 E3/2 ^G/| A6||(AB)|\
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e A B A (E3/2D/) E ^G|A6|]