Comments on: Bawdy ballads of saints, sinners, cutpurses and sundry other folk

Bawdy ballads of saints, sinners, cutpurses and sundry other folk

madamjujujive — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:03:29 -0800

The Saint Turned Sinner, or the Dissenting Parson's Text Under the Quaker's Petticoats - the bawdy tale of "A Gospel Cushion thumper, who dearly loved a Bumper," from Blackletter Ballads, a small but fine collection of ballads with themes ranging from cutpurses to kings, all gleaned from 17th century broadsheets.

By: wobh

wobh — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:04:29 -0800

For more tales of ribaldry see Honore de Balzac Droll Stories (volume 2 volume 3 and volume 1 in mp3).

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:34:15 -0800

In no particular order: Here's a handy mirror of the Digital Tradition searchable and browsable collection of folksong lyrics and scores. Also: Ballads & Broadsides. See also (but MIDI WARNING) Folk Music of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and America, including Francis J. Child Ballads. Further 16th c. Ballads Project, and a collection of broadsides from Oxford's Bodleian Library. For a hard-core example of a living story-singing tradition, see and hear Bosnian singer Avdo Mededovic compose heroic poetry in performance (1935).

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:16:10 -0800

But tho' he feigned reeling, they made him pay for feeling, And Lugg'd him to a Prison, to bring him to his Reason, Which he had lost before, which he had lost before. Rolicking fun, juju - thanks!

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:52:35 -0800

The text of this ballad appears in the collection Rump Songs published in 1662. Now you know why they call him "Sir" Mix-a-lot. Thanks, MJJJ!