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12 Mar 06 - 08:00 PM (#1691575) Subject: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie I believe this is from Pills to Purge Melancholy. It's not in the DT and a Google search was unsuccessful. Anybody? Thanks. :-) |
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12 Mar 06 - 08:08 PM (#1691589) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: Sorcha Then you didn't do it right....tune here, off to look for lyrics. |
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12 Mar 06 - 08:13 PM (#1691595) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: Sorcha You can listen here for a few pennies and transcribe it yourself. |
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12 Mar 06 - 08:25 PM (#1691606) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: MaineDog Custer LaRue sings this with the Baltimore Consort. The lyrics are a bit much even for Mudcat!! MD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-KfyK-oWg |
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12 Mar 06 - 08:28 PM (#1691610) Subject: ADD: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: Joe Offer Aw, c'mon, MaineDog! the words aren't all that titillating...Worse has been heard from the lips of Kendall Morse, and they didn't kick HIM out of Maine... Jenny, My Blithest Maid (music by Samuel Ackroyde, lyrics writer unknown) Jenny, my blithest maid, Prithee listen to my true love now: I am a canny lad - Gang along with me to yonder brow. Aw the boughs shall shade us round, While the nightingale and linnet teach us How the lad the lass may woo: Come, and I'll show my Jenny how to do. I ken full many a thing: I can dance, and can whistle too, I many a song can sing, Pitch-bar, and run, and wrestle too. Bonny Mog of our town Gave me bead-laces and kerchers many: Only Jenny 'twas would win Jockey from aw the lasses of the Green. Then lig me down, my bearn, Ize not spoil thy gaudy shining gear: I'll make a bed of fern, And I'll gently press my Jenny there! Let me lift thy petticoat, And thy kercher too that hides thy bosom: Show thy naked beauty's store - Jenny alone's the lass that I adore! from Sixty Ribald Songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy Click to play |
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12 Mar 06 - 08:32 PM (#1691612) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: Sorcha Thanks Joe....I do tend to get a bit fed up. |
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12 Mar 06 - 08:39 PM (#1691614) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: Malcolm Douglas The Pills reference is vol III, 1719-20, pp 252-3; Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music) states that the music was written by Samuel Akeroyde, while the lyric appears first (?) as a poem in The Theater of Music, 1685, and with music in 180 Loyal Songs (same year). |
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13 Mar 06 - 08:58 AM (#1691950) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: MaineDog Thanks, Joe, I wasn't sure I could cite it properly. MD |
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13 Mar 06 - 09:02 AM (#1691952) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: greg stephens This tune was recorded in c1976 on the legendary "Beggar Boy of the North " Fellside LP, by the shy and retiring Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack. |
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13 Mar 06 - 01:27 PM (#1692199) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: Kim C Thanks... I already had the tune, I just needed the words. :-) |
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22 Sep 06 - 08:57 AM (#1840761) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: greg stephens "Beggar Boy of the North"(Greg Stephens and Crookfinger Jack) has just been reissued on CD by Harbourtown Records(HARCD051). Thought you'd like to know |
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08 Mar 24 - 10:51 AM (#4198767) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Jenny My Blithest Maid From: GUEST Does anyone know what "Bonny Mog of our Town" means, from these lyrics? |