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19 Apr 05 - 05:32 PM (#1465770) Subject: Maid with the Milking Pail From: GUEST,Lampredi I am looking for words and music for: The Maid with the Milking Pail. It s mentioned in Samuel French's edition of the play "Our American Cousin" Some searching in standard resources has yielded nothing. thanks, Lampredi |
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19 Apr 05 - 06:22 PM (#1465826) Subject: RE: Maid with the Milking Pail From: Uncle_DaveO And of course we all remember that play, Our American Cousin! Dave Oesterreich |
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20 Apr 05 - 04:16 AM (#1466127) Subject: RE: Maid with the Milking Pail From: GUEST,Martin Ryan FWIW, a quick Google suggests that it may be a setting of "The Pretty girl milking her cow". Regards |
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20 Apr 05 - 04:35 AM (#1466130) Subject: RE: Maid with the Milking Pail From: Joe Offer You can find the entire script of Our American Cousin here (click) you can amaze your friends and relations by informing them that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching Act III, Scene 2, of this play. The script calls for "Maid with the milking pail" to be sung during the second scene of Act II. I even found out that there's an 1846 book called The maid with the milking pail, a ballad, the poetry by J. B. Buckstone. I looked through Levy, the Library of Congress, and 14 volumes of 19th-century songs - but I can't find the damn milkingpail song. -Joe Offer- |
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20 Apr 05 - 04:44 AM (#1466131) Subject: RE: Maid with the Milking Pail From: Billy Weeks The song 'The Maid with the Milking Pail' is in the British Library catalogue as being by Edward Fitzwilliam with 'poetry' by J B Buckstone (1802-1879). Buckstone, who also wrote a comedy with the same name, was a famous actor-manager and playwright. He also wrote 'The Green Bushes' a play with a song that has since turned up occasionally as 'trad'. |
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20 Apr 05 - 05:26 AM (#1466152) Subject: RE: Maid with the Milking Pail From: GUEST Yes - I see the references to the play and "ballad" alright. There are also contemporary references to an "Irish jig" of that name. The "Pretty Girl milking.." (a.k.a. Cailín Deas crúite na mbó" is in jig time - which is what started me thinking. Regards |
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26 Apr 05 - 01:27 AM (#1470866) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Maid with the Milking Pail From: GUEST,Lampredi Thanks for your effort. I am producing the play and we are going to have to use a different song because we can't find the damn thing either. Lampredi |
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26 Apr 05 - 10:25 AM (#1471209) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Maid with the Milking Pail From: GUEST If you still need to find 'another song' this one would at least predate the American Cousin and thus be plausible. Dim recollection that one of the Williamsburg songbooks (source for the ballads sung in the colonial taverns at Colonial Williamsburg) had a charming and easily learned song, here's the first verse lyric: Two maidens went milking one day, two maidens went milking one day, and the wind it did blow high and the wind it did blow low, and it tossed their pails to and fro, fa-la-la, and it tossed their pails to and fro. |
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26 Apr 05 - 10:33 AM (#1471213) Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Maid with the Milking Pail From: GUEST,Small Bird or Two It's in the DT, this link will lead you to the full text and some entries in the forum about it. A Small Bird or Two |