ADD: Jenny My Blithest Maid

Subject: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:00 PM

I believe this is from Pills to Purge Melancholy. It's not in the DT and a Google search was unsuccessful. Anybody? Thanks. :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:08 PM

Then you didn't do it right....tune here, off to look for lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:13 PM

You can listen here for a few pennies and transcribe it yourself.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: MaineDog
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:25 PM

Custer LaRue sings this with the Baltimore Consort. The lyrics are a bit much even for Mudcat!!
MD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-KfyK-oWg

Subject: ADD: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:28 PM

Aw, c'mon, MaineDog! the words aren't all that titillating...Worse has been heard from the lips of Kendall Morse, and they didn't kick HIM out of Maine...

Jenny, My Blithest Maid
(music by Samuel Ackroyde, lyrics writer unknown)

Jenny, my blithest maid,
Prithee listen to my true love now:
I am a canny lad -
Gang along with me to yonder brow.
Aw the boughs shall shade us round,
While the nightingale and linnet teach us
How the lad the lass may woo:
Come, and I'll show my Jenny how to do.

I ken full many a thing:
I can dance, and can whistle too,
I many a song can sing,
Pitch-bar, and run, and wrestle too.
Bonny Mog of our town
Gave me bead-laces and kerchers many:
Only Jenny 'twas would win
Jockey from aw the lasses of the Green.

Then lig me down, my bearn,
Ize not spoil thy gaudy shining gear:
I'll make a bed of fern,
And I'll gently press my Jenny there!
Let me lift thy petticoat,
And thy kercher too that hides thy bosom:
Show thy naked beauty's store -
Jenny alone's the lass that I adore!


from Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:32 PM

Thanks Joe....I do tend to get a bit fed up.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 12 Mar 06 - 08:39 PM

The Pills reference is vol III, 1719-20, pp 252-3; Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music) states that the music was written by Samuel Akeroyde, while the lyric appears first (?) as a poem in The Theater of Music, 1685, and with music in 180 Loyal Songs (same year).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: MaineDog
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 08:58 AM

Thanks, Joe, I wasn't sure I could cite it properly.
MD

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: greg stephens
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 09:02 AM

This tune was recorded in c1976 on the legendary "Beggar Boy of the North " Fellside LP, by the shy and retiring Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Mar 06 - 01:27 PM

Thanks... I already had the tune, I just needed the words. :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: greg stephens
Date: 22 Sep 06 - 08:57 AM

"Beggar Boy of the North"(Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack) has just been reissued on CD by Harbourtown Records(HARCD051). Thought you'd like to know

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Mar 24 - 10:51 AM

Does anyone know what "Bonny Mog of our Town" means, from these lyrics?