Ye lads and ye lasses that live at Longleat

DMI number:

11826

First Line:

Ye lads and ye lasses that live at Longleat

Last Line:

He must first make a better or kiss my bum-fiddle | Sing down down hey Derry-down

Poem Genre / Form:

Song with refrain and Quatrain aabb

Themes:

Music[Fiddle] and Scatological humour / bodily functions

Related People

Author:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

Confidence:

Speculation (10%)

Comments:

'Uncertain attribution' c. f. Keith.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

pp. 59-64

Poem Title:

Song. Upon a Gentleman sitting upon a Cremona-Fiddle.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed