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#JAMAICAN FOLK SONGS LYRICS LONG TIME GAL PRO#

People come, including (Lord Flea) a soldier, to "feel up" and "finger" including a voodoo man (Denzil Laing - maybe a figurative "finger") but she has no sale. LONG DESCRIPTION: Jamaican patois: A woman goes to Linstead market to sell her ackee on a Saturday night. At last a letter arrives, saying that he "just got married today." He promises to meet her the next day, though, and take her to the showĮARLIEST DATE: 1907 (Jekyll-JamaicanSongAndStory) Take The Mayor of Bayswater.DESCRIPTION: "He promised to meet me at Linstead Market, take me out to a show." The girl waits long, but there is no sign of Joe.

The melodies are easy for poor singers (which would have pleased Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger).

They can be sung unaccompanied (which would have appealed to Pete Bellamy and The Young Tradition).

No one knows who wrote them and they change continually over the years as people add bits.

They often borrow a well-known tune to carry the words.

Are rugby songs part of the folk tradition? Are they folk songs? Folk? What? Their producer, Norrie Paramour, thought it a more suitable A side than Apache. That’s why when The Shadows recorded it in 1960 (B-side to Apache) it’s just a guitar instrumental. Yes, even The Quartermaster’s Store could get rude. The Malcolm I remember was rather a whispy, effete youth, which is why the lyric was chosen. There was Malcolm covering himself with talcum in the Quartermaster’s Store. It had to be made up as you went along, and the names had to refer to someone who was present in an apposite way. There are rats, rats, as big as alley cats,Īdd mice eating all the rice / goats eating all the oats / butter running in the gutter etc.īut that was NOT the one we sang. The song probably dates to earlier than 1914 with suggestions tht it is mid 17th century.īoy scout lyrics refer to animals and it’s completely innocuous: The Quartermaster’s Store provided food and clothing, and so the song suggested it was a filthy place. It dates back to at least the First World War and has a Round Folk Song Index number (10508). The Quartermaster’s Store to me has no set lyric. My first verse isn’t in there at all, and my memory of bus trips puts the chorus after every second verse, with ‘We’re the biggest load of bastards in the land’ ending every other verse, but this has Oh, how the money rolls in after every verse. I looked online and this was the record rugby songs version relating to that bit … selected from eleven verses: We’re the biggest load of bastards in the land.

#JAMAICAN FOLK SONGS LYRICS LONG TIME GAL PRO#

My little sister Millie is a pro in Piccadilly It came into my memory as this, sung to the tune of My Bonnie: The original song The Money Rolls In came to me (after discussing prostitution in 19th century London). The most popular were songs from five or six years earlier, with Neil Sedaka’s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do the runaway favourite. Those were mixed groups, and I never heard a rugby song on them, though we sang all the way. That was by Clarence Williams, and dates back to 1928.Īt Hull University, the Students Union hired a bus to London for the end of term, the cheapest way to get home (or for me, two-thirds of the way home). In my memory the sort of lads who liked trad jazz loved dirty ditties, but then trad has a long tradition of innuendo, with songs such as Organ Grinder Blues … the way I love your organ is when you grind it slow. I’d be dancing to the Rolling Stones or The Beatles, but there’d be a group of blokes in the kitchen, next to the Party Sevens singing them … and wondering in a bemused way why the girls at the party showed no interest in them. If anyone tried to start any of the last three, the sing song would be stopped by teachers or youth club leaders or scoutmasters. They ranged from the mild and acceptable at scout camps ( The Quartermaster’s Store ) to the downright filthy ( The Good Ship Venus, Dinah Show Us Your Leg, The Red Flag). I remember them from school trips, from youth club outings, even round camp fires. This leads to sea shanties (or sea chanteys if you prefer), bawdy ballads, rude rounds, dirty ditties, lewd lyrics, salty songs. This started out trying to remember the words of a rude song, and I was referred to rugby songs lyrics online. I’ve never watched a rugby game but like anyone from the sixties and seventies, I do remember rugby songs. We were made to play it for one year out of five at school, and I hated every second.

Music From Big Pink: The Band: 50th Anniversary edition.

Latest Record Project volume 1 – Van Morrison.

Recall The Beginning – A Journey From Eden.

Bawdy ballads, lewd lyrics, rugby songs and folk.

The 60s: Dancing bands and watching bands.

Pye International … sleeves and centres.

Badge engineering: labels and sub-labels.

EPs: the charts, Cliff Richard and The Shadows.