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23 Jan 00 - 03:24 PM (#167189) Subject: Jolly Brewman From: GUEST,Phil Tetlow Can anyone help me with the lyrics for this song the chorus of which is simply "Hey Jolly Brewman" Thanks Phil Tetlow |
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24 Jan 00 - 11:07 AM (#167524) Subject: RE: Jolly Brewman From: GUEST,T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) The song is "Hey Jolly BROOM man". The tune is a country-dance melody called "Jamaica", or "The Jovial Broom Man". The first verse it, approximately,
Room for a lad that's come from seas T. |
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27 Nov 11 - 10:05 PM (#3264492) Subject: Lyr Add: THE JOVIAL BROOM MAN From: Jim Dixon From Daily Life in Stuart England by Jeffrey L. Forgeng (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007), page 199: THE JOVIAL BROOM MAN Words by Richard Climsell; tune, "The Slow Men of London" a.k.a. "Jamaica" Room for a lad that's come from seas, Hey jolly broom-man, That gladly now would take his ease, And therefore make me room, man. To France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Hey jolly broom-man, I crossed the seas and back again, And therefore make me room, man. Yet in these countries livèd I, And seen many a valiant soldier die. An hundred gallants there I killed, And beside a world of blood I spilled. In Germany I took a town. I threw the walls there upside down. At Tilbury Camp with Captain Drake I made the Spanish fleet to quake. At Holland's Leaguer there I fought, But there the service proved too hot. Then from the League returnèd I, Naked, hungry, cold and dry. But here I have now compassed the globe, I am back returned, as poor as Job; And now I am safe returnèd back, Here's to you in a cup of canary sack. And now I am safe returnèd here, Here's to you in a cup of English beer; And if my travels you desire to see, You may buy it for a penny here of me. |
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27 Nov 11 - 11:41 PM (#3264529) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: JohnB A good version by the Baltimore Consort, sung by Custer LaRue Clip of Track 14 here JohnB |
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09 Jan 19 - 09:19 AM (#3970755) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Lyrics above are quite truncated from the original. The source is in the Roxburgh ballads and can be seen (images plus text transcription - click the various tabs above the image) at UCLA's English Broadside Ballad Archive: Ioviall Broome man Mick |
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10 May 21 - 07:08 PM (#4105582) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GUEST,I’ve forgotten my name Holland's Leaguer was a famous brothel. |
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27 Jul 21 - 10:12 AM (#4114530) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GUEST,Greum > Holland's Leaguer was a famous brothel In London between 1603 and January 1632. Can anyone explain what a broom man (jovial or otherwise) is? |
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27 Jul 21 - 11:44 AM (#4114536) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GUEST,Modette A maker of brooms? |
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27 Jul 21 - 01:39 PM (#4114548) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GUEST,Greum I guess that makes some sense but does it fit with the song? |
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27 Jul 21 - 02:13 PM (#4114551) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: Steve Gardham A maker and SELLER of brooms. More the latter though they usually made their own. All you needed was a knife, a ball of string, access to some broom or similar stems, and thicker branches for the handles. Check out the old ballad 'Green Broom'. |
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30 Jul 21 - 07:27 AM (#4114793) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GUEST,Greum At last the penny has dropped! |
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30 Jul 21 - 03:27 PM (#4114840) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: Steve Gardham Yep, all you need is a 'Sheath and Knife'and a 'Little Ball of Yarn' then you head up to Cowdenknowes, not forgetting the handles from Dalby Forest. In the 18th century a lot of the broom girls were from the continent. Check out 'Buy a Broom. c1800, a popular theatre piece. |
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31 Jul 21 - 02:51 AM (#4114886) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GUEST Lish young buy-a-broom |
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23 Oct 22 - 12:13 PM (#4156102) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GeoffLawes Hey Jolly Broom Man - The City Waites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s794xc-IBMk |
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23 Oct 22 - 12:17 PM (#4156103) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jolly Brewman? / Jolly Broom Man From: GeoffLawes Many other recordings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7g2Td4kQB0 |