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Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle

08 Jan 02 - 08:26 AM (#623286)
Subject: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: John in Brisbane

This is a double entendre ballad about a blacksmith's conversation with an unhappily married woman. There are the usual references to his forge and his metal getting hotter and harder. It's far from an obscure piece I would have thought, but then again I haven't heard it in the last thirty years or so. In a minor key as I recall.

I couldn't find it in the DT or Forum.

Regards, John

08 Jan 02 - 08:56 AM (#623307)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: MMario

The Lusty Young Smith should be here

as it is blocked by my content filtr I can't be sure...

08 Jan 02 - 08:59 AM (#623310)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: MMario

lyrics are posted in the forum in this thread

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08 Jan 02 - 09:18 AM (#623327)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: masato sakurai

The one posted in the thread, Ed McCurdy's version of "A Lusty Young Smith" (also in Ed McCurdy's Song Book of Wit and Mirth, Hargail, n.d., p. 15), has a "With a jingle bang" burden. Thomas D'Urfey's "The Lusty Young Smith" (in S.A.J. Bradley, Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy, Andre Deutsch, 1968, pp. 146-147) has a different melody and burden ("With a rub, rub, rub, rub, rub, rub, in and out, in and out, ho!").

~Masato

08 Jan 02 - 11:27 AM (#623400)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: GUEST,A Non

There's no evidence that the song is by D'Urfey. It was in the 2nd volume of the first 3 editions of Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1700, 1707, and 1712, and in the 4th volume in the 4th edition (1719). In the latter edition D'Urfey's songs (with a few others) were gathered in the 1st 2 volumes.--- data from Day & Murrie's English Song-Books, 1940.

08 Jan 02 - 11:46 AM (#623407)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: masato sakurai

A Non, thanks for the correction. I should have seen the notes (p. 191), which say, "Writer and composer unidentified."
~Masato

08 Jan 02 - 12:19 PM (#623430)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: Anglo

MMario's first link (to the "Cantaria" page) has lyrics with the "Jingle Bang" chorus. They refer to two versions of the song, "traditional" and "contemporary" and link to a nice mp3 of the former, the d'Urfey tune and text ("Rub, rub, rub" chorus) sung by Jeff Lee. There's also a non-working link to a "contemporary" version, probably the Ed McCurdy "Jingle Bang" one, by Andrew Scarhart.

08 Jan 02 - 12:22 PM (#623432)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: MMario

Thanks anglo!

08 Jan 02 - 02:45 PM (#623526)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: Hollowfox

Masato-sama, I salute and appreciate your consistant and thorough scholarship. I didn't know that Ed McCurdy had published anything! Many thanks.

08 Jan 02 - 02:51 PM (#623531)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: breezy

Over 35 years ago, or circa.

09 Jan 02 - 03:56 AM (#623967)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: John in Brisbane

Many thanks to all, including MMario and Bruce O. I know that the lyrics appear in another thread, but the embedded chords here may be of some help.

Regards, John

(Key:  D) guitar chords in [ ]

[G]A lusty young smith at his [D7]vice stood a-[G]filing.
His hammer laid by but his [D7]forge still a-[G]glow.
When [C]to him a [G]buxom young [D7]damsel came [G]smiling,
And asked if to [D7]work in her forge he would [G]go.

Chorus
With a [G]jingle bang jingle bang [C]jingle bang [G]jingle.
With a jingle bang jingle bang [D7}jingle high [G]ho.

"I will," said the smith, and they went off together,
Along to the young damsel's forge they did go.
They stripped to go to it, 'twas hot work and hot weather.
They kindled a fire and she soon made him blow.

Chorus...

Her husband, she said, no good work could afford her.
His strength and his tools were worn out long ago.
The smith said "Well mine are in very good order,
And I am now ready my skill for to show."

Chorus...

Red hot grew his iron, as both did desire,
And he was too wise not to strike while 'twas so.
Said she, "What I get I get out of the fire,
So prithee, strike home and redouble the blow."

Chorus...

Six times did his iron, by vigorous heating,
Grow soft in her forge in a minute or so,
But as often was hardened, still beating and beating,
But the more it was softened, it hardened more slow.

Chorus...

When the smith rose to go, quoth the dame full of sorrow:
"Oh, what would I give could my husband do so.
Good lad with your hammer come hither tomorrow,
But pray could you use it once more ere you go!"

Chorus...

09 Jan 02 - 04:01 AM (#623969)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bawdy - With a jingle by jingle
From: John in Brisbane

And finally a belated Happy New Year to any of the old timers who still remember me.

I note that Joe had not left his cratch marks on the earlier thread to indicate that he had harvested the lyrics.

Regards, John