English Drinking Songs

Artista: Lloyd, a.L.

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: TPC

Catalogo: 496

Faixas: 1.1 The Derby Ram
1.2 The Foggy Dew
1.3 Maggie May
1.4 When Johnson’s Ale Was New
1.5 The Butcher ; the Chambermaid
1.6 A Jug of Punch
1.7 The Parson ; the Maid
1.8 Three Drunken Huntsmen
1.9 All for Me Grog
1.10 The Drunken Maidens
1.11 Rosin’ the Beau V
1.12 The Farmer’s Servant
1.13 John Barleycorn
1.14 A Jug of This

These songs of merriment and mayhem were of the kind, Lloyd said, that might be heard “around the barroom table of a little country alehouse on a Saturday night not drinking songs in the strict sense – not songs merely in praise of liquor” but songs that “tell a bit of a story songs as sly as a tinker’s wink, as rough as a ploughman’s hand.” They are accompanied on banjo or concertina.