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Padstow Drinking Song
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Padstow Drinking Song |
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This song was in the original repertoire of Ninepenny Marl. Johnny Collins tells us that he knows it as the "Sussex Drinking Song" and we must assume that it has been picked up and owned by a number of places, probably travelling by sea. Linda learned this song from a Dave and Toni Arthur album called "Morning stands on tiptoe", (1967) The sleeve notes are the only documentation she has come across and read as follows. This song was collected by Mr David Cooper, just outside Padstow at Easter 1966. The grocer who sang it to him did not have a title for the song so Mr Cooper has called it the Padstow Drinking Song. A version of the song, again with no title, was published in Inglis Gundry's collection of Cornish songs "Canow Kernow" The last verse used here is two lines taken from, "Here's a health to King George", published in A. Williams, "Folk songs of the upper Thames", a song with a similar theme. Traditional arranged Ninepenny Marl |
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