Diddle diddle, or, The kind country lovers (3:22) -- The fair maid of Islington (4:09) -- Green stockings (2:21) -- The jovial lass, or, Dol and Roger (4:19) -- Mundanga was (2:49) -- Lady of pleasure (1:37) -- The old wife (2:06) -- The beehive 92:33) -- Blue petticoats, or, Green garters (2:02) -- The gelding of the devil (6:54) -- The maid's complaint for want of a dil doul (5:27) -- Oyster Nan (2:20) -- The frolic (2:06) -- The husband who met his match (5:27) -- The jovial broom man (2:56) -- The disappointment (3:49) -- The lusty young smith (2:28) -- Greensleeves and yellow lace (2:31) -- The jolly brown turd (1:37) -- Two rounds. Tom making a manteau ; When Celia was learning (3:16) -- Lady lie near me (1:31) -- Oh how you protest (1:33) -- A ditty delightful of Mother Watkin's ale (3:41) -- Miss Nelly (2:30).
Note
Broadside ballads from Pills to purge melancholy and various other sources, and instrumental dances from Playford's The dancing master.
Musical arrangements by Roddy Skeaping.
Event (note)
Recorded Aug. 1995, at The Premises, London.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
City Waites (Musical group)
Title
Bawdy ballads of old England [electronic resource] : the Mufitians of Grope Lane / the City Waites.
Imprint
Tolpuddle [England] : Regis Records, [1996]
Performer
City Waites (Lucie Skeaping, soprano, baroque violin ; Douglas Wootton, tenor, lute, bandora, cittern, tabor ; Roddy Skeaping, baroque violin, bass viol, voice ; Michael Brain, baroque bassoon, recorders, voice ; Robin Jeffrey, baroque guitar, cittern ; Mike Sargeant, early Northumbrian bagpipes, Flemish bagpipes ; David Chatterley, hurdy-gurdy).