The City Waites & Lucie Skeaping Bawdy Ballads Of Old England - 17Th Century Songs CD

it is no good having lewd words one cannot hear... so full marks for the City Waites and their swinging dialect style... items are sometimes accompanied, sometimes not, and this nicely provides contrast, but they are made into lively entertainments (Penguin Guide 3*) "a taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration... The Maid's Complaint is a remarkably spontaneous scene, led by soprano Lucie Skeaping complete with a bunch of drunks who join in, late... Good fun but not very clean!" (Gramophone) "good diction allows particular clarity" (MusicWeb)

1. Diddle Diddle or the Kind Country Lovers 2. The Fair Maid of Lslington 3. Green Stockings 4. The Jovial Lass or Dol and Roger 5. Mundanga Was 6. Lady of Pleasure 7. The Old Wife 8. The Beehive 9. Blue Petticoats or Green Garters 10. The Gelding of the Devil 11. The Maid's Complaint for Want of a Dil Doul 12. Oyster Nan 13. The Frolic 14. The Husband Who Met His Match 15. The Jovial Broom Man 16. The Disappointment 17. The Lusty Young Smith 18. Greensleeves and Yellow Lace 19. The Jolly Brown Turd 20. Two Rounds: Tom Making a Manteau 21. When Celia Was Learning 22. Lady Lie Near Me 23. Oh How You Protest 24. A Ditty Delightful of Mother Watkin's Ale 25. Miss Nelly