Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today's song comes from Joe Offer's collection of songs. This one is not from the BBC programme, "Singing Together", but according to the notes:
Source: Sabine Baring Gould, 1895, Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie
Notes:
This is taken from the selection of the eight volume work by Baring Gould of the same name, reprinted by Llanerch Publishers.
The song was included in volume 7 of Baring Gould's English Minstrelsie (xix-xx, 60-61). He commented:
"This old tune has gone through many changes, and has been adapted on one side to a cock-fighting song, and on the other has become that still popular song, O Rare Turpin Hero, which is sung by our peasantry. Mr. Chappell points out that O Good Ale resembles in the outset the air John, come kiss me now. It is also used for the popular ballad of The Gypsy Countess. The song is to be found on half-sheet music in the British Museum (G. 312).
Today's song comes from Joe Offer's collection of songs. This one is not from the BBC programme, "Singing Together", but according to the notes:
Source: Sabine Baring Gould, 1895, Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie
Notes:
This is taken from the selection of the eight volume work by Baring Gould of the same name, reprinted by Llanerch Publishers.
The song was included in volume 7 of Baring Gould's English Minstrelsie (xix-xx, 60-61). He commented:
"This old tune has gone through many changes, and has been adapted on one side to a cock-fighting song, and on the other has become that still popular song, O Rare Turpin Hero, which is sung by our peasantry. Mr. Chappell points out that O Good Ale resembles in the outset the air John, come kiss me now. It is also used for the popular ballad of The Gypsy Countess. The song is to be found on half-sheet music in the British Museum (G. 312).
