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01 Aug 03 - 05:58 PM (#995303) Subject: Lyr Req: mistress and a whore From: GUEST,daystar Hi folks cannot remember title of song The story is servent girl is getting what the mistress is not and getting paid by farmer so mistress gives her notice to leave cant remember tune or who sang it |
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01 Aug 03 - 08:05 PM (#995368) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mistress and a whore From: Malcolm Douglas There are quite a few possibilities. For a start, have a look at The Bedmaking. Although the DT file doesn't name any traditional source, the version given there is basically the one that the Hammond brothers got from Mrs Marina Russell of Upwey, Dorset, in 1907 (tune) and George Udall (Halstock, Dorset) and Benjamin Arnold (Easton, Hampshire) (text) in 1906. The collation was published in Frank Purslow, The Wanton Seed, EFDS London, 1968. The DT transcription is pretty accurate, though it exhibits the odd tendency, common among people who transcribe lyrics from records made by professional "revival" performers (as opposed to traditional singers) of mistaking accent for dialect, and insisting on rendering words like "myself" as "meself", under the impression that it's somehow more authentic. Of course, you may be looking for a completely different song, and my comments may be completely irrelevant. Do let us know. |
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02 Aug 03 - 01:33 PM (#995596) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mistress and a whore From: Forsh Is it the one about the whore in red, and the bride in white? |
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02 Aug 03 - 06:09 PM (#995667) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mistress and a whore From: Bat Goddess First song that came to my mind, too, is "The Bedmaking." BTW, I sing an added verse at the end that I got from Frankie Armstrong's recording: She cursed him first through the kitchen and then through the hall And then through the parlor among the ladies all, Saying, "If you won't pay me, here's your little son John, Who never cost you naught but the bedmaking." Linn |
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02 Aug 03 - 06:42 PM (#995678) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mistress and a whore From: Malcolm Douglas Both recordings referred to in the DT file include that verse. It isn't in the Wanton Seed collation, and I rather think that Martin Carthy wrote it himself. |
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03 Aug 03 - 07:10 AM (#995858) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: mistress and a whore From: GUEST,Daystar Thanks for your help I did look at Bedmaking before I posted It is in the same vain but not the one I was looking for The song I am trying to remember has convisation between the mistress and the servant girl in the last verse where the mistrees gives the girl the gold the farmer had given to his wife mistaking her in the dark for the girl |