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Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England

Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England

UPC: 747313267224

Format: CD

Release Date: Jun 10, 2005

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Disc 1
1. The Merry Boys of the Time
2. The Country Lass
3. A Good Misfortune
4. The The Countryman's Joy
5. Seldom cleanly
6. A Merry Jest of John Thomson and Jakaman his Wife
7. The Seven Merry Wives of London
8. Old England Grown New
9. Good Advice to Bachelors
10. Neptune's Raging Fury
11. The North Country Lovers
12. The Lunatick Lover
13. The Downfall of Dancing
14. The Saint Turn'd Sinner
15. An Old Song on the Spanish Armada
16. The Female Captain
17. London Mourning in Ashes
18. The Famous Ratcatcher

Tracks:

1 - Courtiers Health, or The Merry Boys of the Times (tune Come Boys Fill Us a Bumper)
2 - Country Lass (tune Cold and Raw/Stingo)
3 - Crost People, broadside ballad (a.k.a. "A Good Misfortune" and "The Crost Couple")
4 - I'll tell thee Dick, folk song (a.k.a. "The Countryman's Joy" and "Song of a Wedding")
5 - Seldom Cleanly (tune Upon a Summer's Day)
6 - Merry Jest of John Thomson and Jakaman His Wife (tune Peg-a-Ramsey)
7 - Seven Merry Wives of London, or The Gossips Complaint (tune Fond Boy)
8 - Old England Grown New (tune The Blacksmith/Greensleeves)
9 - Good Advice to Batchelors, How to Court and Obtain a Young Lass (tune Lili burlero)
10 - Neptune's Raging Fury (tune When the stormy winds do blow)
11 - North Country Lovers (tune Wolsey's Wilde)
12 - Lunatick Lover (tune Grim King of the Ghosts)
13 - Downfall of Dancing (tune Robin Goodfellow)
14 - Saint Turn'd Sinner (tune A Soldier and a Sailor)
15 - And Old Song on the Spanish Armada (tune Jon on/Eighty-eight)
16 - Female Captain, or The Counterfit Bridegroom (tune Ladies of London)
17 - London Mourning in Ashes (tune In sad and ashy weeds)
18 - Famous Ratcatcher (tune Tom a Bedlam)