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21 Jun 10 - 03:54 PM (#2932153) Subject: I know a Milk maid From: Pierre Le Chapeau "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. |
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21 Jun 10 - 05:44 PM (#2932254) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk From: Pierre Le Chapeau I,ll take the above "Has a No Then? Impatience to the last Pierre? |
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22 Jun 10 - 07:39 AM (#2932565) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk From: Pierre Le Chapeau 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. |
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22 Jun 10 - 10:46 AM (#2932654) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song From: Desert Dancer WHO'S THE FOOL NOW or MARTIN SAID TO HIS MAN DT SongID=7860 ~ Becky in Long Beach |
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23 Jun 10 - 04:52 PM (#2933505) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk From: Pierre Le Chapeau Thanks Desert Dancer, Excellent" Kind regards Pierre. |
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24 Jun 10 - 04:56 AM (#2933787) Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song From: pavane 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 |
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24 Jun 10 - 04:58 AM (#2933790) Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song From: pavane Tune to that one was Villikens and his Dinah, a.k.a. Sweet Betsy from Pike |
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24 Jun 10 - 06:10 AM (#2933815) Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk song From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Not sure what the Napoleonic connection might be. Who's The Fool Now has been published in England since ~1600. Mick |
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25 Jun 10 - 08:15 PM (#2934914) Subject: RE: lyr req: I know a Milk maid - Napoleonic folk From: Pierre Le Chapeau 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> |
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03 Oct 11 - 10:59 PM (#3233428) Subject: Lyr Add: WELL DONE LIAR (from Cecil Sharp) From: Jim Dixon 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 |