Let's get this show on the roof because that phrase came from Probably circus folk or traveling performers of some sort. Let's make sure you guys can hear all this Because loud as possible That's what this video is. It's not to convince you not that I'm right Not that I have the truth. Although I think it is the truth the objective truth that we Should be living out here. Okay, so you are thinks that the objective truth to him and that's what I love about him by the way is that he He's pretty secure pretty secure in his convictions, but he's willing to admit that There is a possibility. He's wrong and I Think he's open-minded enough to Potentially recognize that if the truth Makes itself ever so apparent at some point in the future my objection to that is overall, I think his philosophy that we Come paraphrasing here, and I'm actually going to be paraphrasing Most of his stuff here. So if you haven't seen the video we belong in nature parentheses civilization is cancer I recommend go watch it I'm gonna be Responding directly to a couple of His ideas here objective truth is that we should live in the wild He thinks meaning the most meaning we can find in life will come from this Object to that by saying that in a way that's Shirking the individual's responsibility To act as a act as a Not only supporter. That's a partial role Supporter Because we were beneficiaries growing up But a What's the popular word nowadays trans transformer a trans figurative Actor figure in the civilization. I think that we the more I'm reading the more understanding that The history we are a part of the history that evolved and We're acted as the precursor to our existence right now At least all I can speak for is my society It it's composed of unfathomably complex leaps forward very I don't want to keep using the same word very Profound quantum leaps forward and ideas and Technological developments and we owe a lot to it. That's that's essentially my argument against them is that despite and I would I would I would shift his characterization of civilization as being a cancer To actually being an organism With potential bouts of cancer Although I don't think they're malignant mortal, I think they're more benign forms of cancer to continue the analogy that Right now we're in the early phases in which we can cut them out and successfully Operate on them or even a more fundamental analog analog level we could maybe act as the Pathogen destroyers in the immuno Immune system of our organization of our The organism that is our civilization so My take on it is that he wants to and again I'm paraphrasing and I would like to honestly genuinely hear his feedback on this because most of his video He admittedly said that he could talk for hours hours hours on this so I would I would love to hear his more broad scope theory on where he's going with Transforming the essence of society into more primal. I mean he's talking about Shirking removing any sort of technology beyond that which we would Be able to manufacture ourselves personally for out of wood and I mean He's not approaching it in a very practical manner, and he admittedly says that it would be existential suicide to do so because Essentially, and I agree with them. Nobody is prepared to survive in the wild the way he is suggesting we should so That's why I think that the he's leaving the specifics up to Either debate or further explanation In a future video, maybe depending on his response that he got so I would like to support him and show support for his Courage it's pretty inspiring. I think he's an inspiring figure and Yeah, I don't know how long I'm gonna make this video, but In case I don't get to it. I think he is Paradoxically, maybe ironically is better. It's the better word for his situation. Hey, I think he's living out the solution to his proposed problem with society which is That we're all slaves and we can't find any meaning in Current society the way it's structured. So we need to revert back to a primal much smaller more tribal more family-oriented way of living and thereby Getting a lot more meaning because we'll have less Obedience to larger and human Indifferent our role will be a lot more Tangible and apparent and meaningful because it will be a lot more a lot less removed from this factory What's the word I'm thinking of kind of a Like lack of humanity Structure with it essentially Doesn't prioritize the human element and doesn't prioritize meaning gain from Economic work, so he thinks we'll be a lot closer to our This in the supply chain will have a lot more say and we will as far as producing or hunting your food from Farm to table So to speak You will essentially be the sole arbiter as opposed to us being a Very far removed very compartmentalized cog in the wheel of the process as a whole economic process I Think he he thinks that will bring more I think I Think he makes a lot of good points, but ultimately I don't I don't think it's sustainable I don't think it's a I don't think you could actually it's practical in the sense that we could act it out I would love to hear his response to that Yeah, because I think all the intricacies all the actual real complexities of it would be in the details of it, so you know It's hard enough to make an idea that makes some sort of sense in regards to Forming in a viable alternative to an already existing Some can argue functional Civil civilization structure Yet, it's it's got to be even harder still to actually come up with something that would technically work in the smallest details of it so It would be interesting to hear flesh that out a little bit So Paul and I never realized your name was Paul until you said it a few times in your video Whether I most likely you won't even see this, so I guess I'll I'll go ahead and just direct this towards the people I know who will see it So I won't I won't bother addressing you directly except for that right there but uh, I hope I hope Paul does see this and You are I think Before any misconceptions get Formulated in anybody's minds that this is a I don't know I hit on his character or something like that or a Some sort of attempt to you know knock knock down his argument based on You know something some some attack on his character or him as a human being I think honestly he He's pretty inspiring individual. I mean, he's obviously very successful with his YouTube channel He's obviously helped a lot of people get to sleep Which is one of the most important facets of our lives so Blanket statement. I Firmly stand by I think he's a creative intelligent Really successful human being I think in general so I Think ironically he's Wanting to dismiss all the technology that has allowed him to Maybe start a second career second life. I don't know if he I Would assume he does it full-time because he puts out a lot of content and and I know just me personally trying to Trying to be consistent with my material And put it out every other day. It takes quite a bit of effort So I can imagine he has used this to just revamp his career Maybe give more meaning to his life than he had previously and maybe that's what's bolstering him to Be courageous enough to put his put forth his argument with his face in the video In his his name on his main channel at the the risk of his Reputation perhaps maybe maybe he considered that so Essentially I just want to praise his courage and Show support for it really despite me Trying to argue against a lot of his positions. There's a There's definitely a significant amount of things. I agree with him about in this video. So I guess we're Well past the intro but It's fun anyway, I'm gonna try to just wing it that didn't really have this is gonna be just a half-witted reply Really, it's just kind of off the cuff. I Just finished. I'm in I'm gonna try to incorporate some of the books that I've been reading recently in it Yeah, in my responses Being the Walter Coffin's two books Nietzsche and Nietzsche you guys can see I've shown this book plenty of times quite a few passages on my beyond the Support some of my arguments within here and then the other one I'm currently reading is Shakespeare to existentialism which Talks about Kurt Hegel, Kierkegaard Nietzsche, Rilke Freud, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynbee And Toynbee I hadn't even ever heard of honestly, so I'm not to the part of the book where we're discussing that but I Do have a passage or two in here and Secondly, I'm sure you guys can see it right there Jordan Peterson's new book 12 rules for life, so Which I I'm not a patron of his I haven't supported him financially So I ended up just getting the book and buying the audiobook as well, which he read personally, so Honestly, I don't think after I'm gonna have to go back and get I that there's a lot of very crucial information that I Feel like it would be invaluable and would be very wise for me to go back and review and underline and maybe really incorporate into my really drill home into my memory a lot of axioms a lot of scientific concepts to that We'll talk about I got one or two things I'm gonna bring up But I'd highly recommend that book by the way, and I'll always mention Jordan Peterson Yeah, but that's just because he I Don't know. I'm you have the risk of sounding like a shill I guess I don't know. I guess you're not a shill if you admit that I guess never mind. I don't know That was I Didn't even make sense before I said I don't know why to bother saying it He's a shill. I guess it's someone who gets paid to Anonymous anonymously Support be a proponent Of something some work some person some entity But I'm certainly not getting paid. I just find Out of any one individual I found really I think ever, you know, even more so than Nietzsche because Nietzsche is more we so far removed culturally and temporally from me that There's bound to be a lot of things that I don't understand Let alone the fact that he wasn't understood by a lot of people in his own time of his own stature academically as well, so a lot most of what he says goes right over my head and I guess Jordan Peterson has a way of he has a way of articulating himself and That to me interestingly interestingly enough. He's admitted to cultivating that skill He said his first book maps of meaning he wrote Three hours a day pretty much every day for 15 years rewriting sentences 20 times most sentences in his book, so to me that's That's a sign of good faith that He doesn't want to discourage people from thinking that he just formulated these ideas. He popped out I think he was exceptionally He is an exceptionally high IQ which is According to him biologically determined, which is Something I would love to research a little more I Don't know why I was like trying to keep my hair all nice, but when I shower it turns into a pile of hay So I try to put some conditioner in it to make it look like a halfway presentable for a video But anyways Jordan Peterson has a lot of arguments that makes sense and he supports him with science and because he is a scientist first and foremost and a psychologist He I've never heard him say he's a philosopher, but he certainly has a worldview Although technically maybe not a coherent logically waterproof watertight, I guess Philosophy set of arguments The set of arguments that he proposes are extremely To me practical and make a lot of sense So anyways, um, you know, I'm gonna probably make this a two-parter. I Think I have so much to talk about here, but ER ball It was very thought-provoking his video So I just felt compelled because it was so in line with some of the stuff. I'm reading right now and initially I wanted to literally just make a two-minute introduction to I I'm trying to up my quality and the terse-ness and Trying to be as concise as I can but I don't know. I don't think that's ever gonna happen. I Was gonna try to rope you guys in with a good solid controversial maybe argument and Then jump right to just mentioning my patreon supporters I don't know. It sounded like a good idea to begin with but then I just like but then I I'm so disorganized and I actually wrote down some notes Microsoft in a Word document here Man, I just kept glancing over and wanting to mention them real quick, but Honestly Sean and Karen, I just wanted to just give you guys a big thanks for showing so much support and in Joshua Alexis and Andy you guys as well You guys all really encourage me and keep this channel going by supporting me like that on patreon and then sandy has been a Blessing And she's been so encouraging as well. She's supported me through PayPal a couple times actually so And they're in pounds, so I guess she's over in the UK somewhere And I just want to give a big thanks for you guys to you guys for supporting me means a lot and Didn't want it to go unnoticed or unacknowledged at least in my videos. So thanks again guys Guess this would be a good time to and so many of my ideas because I'm not Even when I was in academics, I might eventually go back to I was Not in I was in the stem field, so I don't know anything about Arguing politics English philosophy And the more complex subjects developed on top of that And even sociology I did take a couple anthropology classes because that interests me like no other But I always Prided myself on being more practical and not just following what was super super interesting to me Or trying to find a good compromise between what was interesting and what was practical and That's how I ended up in engineering because science is interesting, but I Didn't see myself excelling so much that I could be a professor And I know pretty much you unless you have that you're not gonna make too much money But I guess a good physicist could make a lot of money in the right department of some private company So engineering seemed like the most useful, but that might be a good segue into my My thoughts on Paul's video here Now I think I'm just say you are instead because that makes more sense nobody's gonna know who Paul is Unless you watch the video or unless he says that sometimes I don't know. I haven't really listened to any of his His podcast either which seemed really cool, but I just don't have time I just saw this video and I'm sucked to ER. So I thought it was cool and me Trying to be practical Although I didn't end up getting my degree. So ultimately I was just kind of like lazy or maybe cowardly to To be to have the conviction to just Follow something through. I don't know. Maybe Maybe that is my issue, but I do fundamentally I Think that if something isn't practical isn't useful in your daily life, then it's not gonna be Not gonna be very Not gonna be very meaningful because you can't act it out. So To segue into my critique of ER here this video I found a lot of things he said was just not practical and First and foremost, I would say calling civilization Cancer is one of them. I don't think that viewing the entire structure That has been slowly developed and incrementally incrementally developed but at points like the French Revolution, you know, pretty much any great revolution industrial revolution any great advances in Quantum mechanics, it's been more of a leap forward, but ultimately Average on average you could say It's been the product of the slow development of really a Continual you can't say that Anything from from what I understand. So this is of course my own opinion It's not reflective of his opinions and with any luck. I won't make a straw man out of his arguments The few arguments that I do have so and I guess that would be my one You know what the underlying Prevus disclaimer, I just want to say is that I don't claim to be Completely knowledgeable about all sides of his argument. I think he seems like he has much more to say than he did like I said in the video So I'm sure I'm gonna make a straw man out of his argument more than I'd like to but I'm gonna attempt not to He let's see, where can I start and I'm not versed enough in the anarchy and everything, but he seems to be an anarchist At least In a in a way he wants to get rid of all major institutions and essentially by going back to a tribal lifestyle he wants to dismiss any major government and And What it seems like what he's implying there is that Tribes would I guess government would emerge out of just the Just the structure that he's proposing should exist us in the wild with minimal technology if not any Which was an issue right there but My broad point is that I would argue that we have Come to where we are Through millions of years of evolution really culturally As well as physiologically and I'm gonna be right. I'm gonna try my best not to again not to I'm gonna try my best to support my arguments and Give you guys an idea of where I'm getting them from 90% of which I'm sure I'm gonna just say Jordan Peterson Jbp but Just cuz if I was watching a video like this, I'd like to know if There's an idea. I throw out that it is interesting to any of you guys I'd like to know where it was from or at least what direction I could go towards Learning more about it. So Jbp Generally, that's gonna mean Carl Jung The guy he mentions John Piaget all the time great psychologist A lot of psychologists rotters Pavlov obviously being a Behaviorist I think he's saying that I think it's it's not to be dismissed easily that The civilization the society all the institutions is the culmination right now and I don't think it's the end product I think everything's constantly evolving and it would be a Terranical in tyrannical stasis if it didn't always continue to evolve, but We're the end product so far and we're the culmination. I think that's the better word of millions of years of physical evolution and At least half a million well at least 150,000 years if not more like 600,000 years of cultural evolution I heard the other day that we started using fire like being able to actually use it whether we actually made it It's probably a different story, but When you have natural forest fires created by lightning striking An area where that's covered in dead Foliage, I guess you'd say Our ability to harness it is at least half a million years old. They're saying I just listened to a nature show the other day I Can't support that Maybe I could yeah, if I'm quick-witted enough to you can't and in the control of fire by early humans here in Wikipedia, but our earliest cultural myths to Probably Are as old as our ability to consciously articulate them into stories and God knows how long that is, you know I guess claims in this on Wikipedia, so it's if anything else it's communal knowledge if not a If not an authoritative source Claims for the earliest definitive evidence of control of fire by a member of Homo range from 1.7 to 2 million years ago So evidence for the controlled use of fire Homo erectus beginning 600,000 years ago has wide wide scholarly support and flint blades burned in fires roughly 300,000 years ago We're found near fossils Of early but not entirely modern Homo sapiens in Morocco and the widespread control of anatomically modern human beings Dates to approximately 125,000 years ago Think about what that means that means that we had the ability to cognize how to Shape so if we're really conservative and go with the most widely supported scholarly work widely One that has the most consensus It's 125,000 years ago Historically, we have about 4,000 years of records, you know since the Maybe 6,000 if you go way way way back so 2,000 years ago and then 4,000 BC So that's 6,000 years that's Roughly 20 times 120th of the time span that we've been able as a species Within our own species Homo sapiens sapiens We've been able to We've been recording history written down 120th of the time that we've actually been Had the capacity and been aware of the technology that allowed us to create not just control but actually create create fire and stone tools and Art as well Although maybe cave art Might only be as old as 40,000 years ago like the Lays Aziz and stuff in France Or that might be the only cave art that we figured out how to make enduring substance With how to make last For a long period of time So discovered fire We doubt and I don't think you are would disagree with the fact that we probably Associated fire just like the Prometheus myth with Our concept of God I would have to say essentially that God evolved along with us our concept evolved And I think I heard the other day maybe in the book sapiens I heard a review about it Forget where maybe it was Jordan Peterson's book Because it was 15 hours of him reading no no no what it was was the Transliminal interview the guy Jordan who interviews Jordan Peterson all the time He was interviewing a social social Anthropologist or someone in that realm of study and they were saying that the concept of God Got more and more sophisticated and so the Judeo-Christian God the Muslim God of the Abrahamic traditions was a Was essentially the culmination of a God that is Omnipotent omniscient and omnipotent. You know, that's similar And all seeing all knowing and all good on Benevolent almost be traced and God had a smaller smaller concept But where am I going with this? I think that was just me my interest is that like The idea of the myth and the myth of God is not just a children's story. It's and it's not just a It's not just a Easy to use tool for control of the masses, although it can and has been used as that It's more fundamentally a story of How the most successful and this is the most important part most successful not just now but over The span the longest possible span of a lifetime or maybe multiple lifetimes How to act? So in other words Although there might be more and Again Jordan Peterson Don't knock me for referencing him most of the time in this video I mean he has a rule one of his main 12 rules is that do something that's meaningful not expedient and If we Culturally evolve the idea of God and we are able to tell these stories that you know The Judeo-Christian God and maybe you know probably not maybe but most likely every old myth Gilgamesh all these old myths The Babylonian Mesopotamia Marduk the Egyptian Horus Cyrus all these ideas of God I would say Product of thousands of think about at least 125,000 probably more like half a million years if Stories told about these great the greatest species The greatest members of our species and the greatest individuals And so what I'm trying to say that took me 20 minutes to get around to is that they're not easily dismissed because they contain within them although they can be dismissed on a Literal level as a children's story Something very simple and simple-minded on a more metaphorical level that cannot be easily dismissed and what you're what I'm finding out I mean through the work of Carl Jung I got a on Carl Jung's a on book back there where he's Essentially, I think that's his theory is that There's a lot of Lot of people died and a lot of trial and error before we understood the best way to act And that came from initially recognizing that we could sacrifice eating a whole bunch today to maybe Save it for later or maybe sacrifice not eating as much as you would to share it with someone in the Maybe unconscious knowledge that you will that act will be reciprocated in the future at some point And Which might have been the origins of this tribal mentality that he are so fond of And my point is that it all evolved and it took time and it took a Lot of dead people to get there You know, we didn't just think it was a good idea and start implementing it and telling stories about it we We had to undergo a lot of suffering and we still do to To arrive at these we had to go through a lot of wars and we had to go through evolution from small roaming bands of people to larger tribes and then Cities and you know villages and cities and city states and the government organizations As old as You know, I'm a Robbie. Yeah, I just don't think you can easily dismiss it, you know I don't think it's I don't think it would be wise to just dismiss civilization as cancer and Maybe your analogy to steel man your argument would be cancer is the development of healthy cells that get out of control and become a a Malignant to the organism in which they In which it they have flourishes and therefore To continue your analogy, maybe there's something deeper to you something more meaningful, which might be in the Might be the human species is what you look at as the organism or you might take a more A broader view and then call the entire earth every organism on that as a single organism and we are Maybe not we as a species, but our culture our current mode of perception is The cancer in which case I think I think that's partially true But not enough so to dismiss the whole thing as cancer You know, I'd have to say that doing so would revert us back to recreating the wheel essentially I think I said the other day that Why recreate the wheel when you can just shave down some of the Mishapen areas of it that's causing it to malfunction as correctly as a wheel should and or not to function as correctly as a wheel should and You know what the point is not trying to recreate the wheel and Why not use our Existing infrastructure, I think it would be a lot more practical to use our infrastructure and Reshape it rather than Re demolish it and rebuild it I think by going to a primal form mode of being you would you would submit yourself to it you would expose yourself to so much more danger and Existential Suicide as you said Is is essentially what it would be so yeah, I'm not really sure what what you're what the details of you would be so but um Let's see 46 minutes. Yeah, maybe I can get through this all in one episode That was probably the world's longest preface to anything, but I just think there's so much evidence that we should Utilize what already exists and They know our son. I know he thinks the most meaning is gonna come from being within a single unit and Essentially having more time with your family. I think is his main argument he talks about co-sleeping and He doesn't believe he doesn't believe in a lot of the traditions and the way you should act Informed by traditions nowadays such as leaving your kid to sleep alone in the room, which I think that's Again, I might be straw manning him here But I think that might be pushing the line between I think it's good to form that really strong bond with your child but at the same time you don't want to overdo it and and Allow your kid to not develop independence and be too dependent on you you want to foster independence and You know, we're all gonna die alone Whether you have someone I think Norm McDonald said that And it is you can't take them can't just Laugh them off because it's it is true. We will die alone whether or not you have family members surrounding you holding your hand You're the one who's gonna die, you know and They'll continue living and so you are born alone you do die alone, but the meaning that's created Through the relationships with other people in particularly your family and loved ones Along the way in between there is What makes life worth living and what powers the will to Commit suicide or Overpowers any Overwhelming sense of suffering that might potentially occur So I do agree. I have some arguments if he ever decides to make a Response to this that would be super cool found things wrong with our society But I think the good outweighs the bad over overall So we're gonna call this the end of part one.  I guess I am like always. I ended up just kind of going ahead Trying to go off the top my head off the cuff and figure out exactly kind of my own thoughts For informed a little bit by a similar notes. I took in regards to yours theory that we should live outside and But in a problem setting perhaps Just regard the cancer that is civilization So I don't really agree with that obviously This part here Yellow carried away earlier as I tend to do and I recorded nearly two hours Have a response I'll film this is just late at night when I'm editing so Figure I just throw in a nice cap to part one here and With any luck you guys enjoyed it and got something out of it at least enough to to be able to comment and Give me Intern a critique on my critique So I thought it was fun. I thought you are was very informative and very thought-provoking very sincere in his video that he made and I didn't want to dismiss any of his arguments as Well, I didn't want to build them up to be a straw man, so I can easily burn them down and I think I Think personally he seems like a really cool guy someone I could probably talk to it for a couple hours over some beers and Maybe one day we can until then this will have to suffice and And This will wrap up part one, which was essentially me trying to Kind of just gather my thoughts on camera really clearly. I don't have a solid argument but hopefully I made some clear points In my venture to organize my own thoughts out loud on camera for you guys to see my Intellect Developing in front of you with any luck That's some sort of analogy to what's actually going on right there Just reading a bunch of books tossing ideas around and Honestly just talking about it helps Consolidate all the good stuff trim the fat I'll go back and listen to it in a week. Maybe just tomorrow realize Some of the Necessary portions of it and it'll be a good way to critique myself, but with any luck a couple of you guys out there will Give me a Sincere once over and you'll be able to Maybe bring to light any obvious fallacies. I might be making but I Had fun doing it nonetheless, and I was trying basically to to pull up To the surface of my mind the idea that Civilization is something that we can't easily dismiss because it's informed All our conscious being it's we're raised in the Landscape of morality that's been shaped by earth by churches rather and by a Structure of religion that's been instantiated in society for thousands of years now and and I Think there's a lot of wisdom there that that you are I think himself recognizes. We can't just completely dismiss So that's why I I was doing the best I could with the what I understood to be what he delivered in that video Unless I just forgot some portions where he elucidated and elaborated on The technicalities of how we live out there, but I'm pretty sure he didn't Nonetheless, I want to thank him for he just being inspiring. He's one of the Forgers path pavers. He's one of the first to do what he did in the ASMR realm and I hope to be a Credible and I have to leave I have to be a good. What's the word? ancestor Good progeny. That sounds ridiculous, but he's a cool guy. I hope he responds I hope he sees this at least if not responds and I'll try to email him and see if I can Maybe get a response out of him or something like that and maybe we can we can go from there But until then, I hope you guys enjoyed this and part two will be coming really soon. Hopefully within a day or two And I Hope you guys enjoyed it's really obviously just the continuation of this video, but I can't imagine anybody would actually Get through a two-hour ASMR video of me talking so Seem to be the most practical way to go about it Either way, thanks again to all my subs all those likes and comments you leave mean a lot to me No, my patreon supporters my PayPal supporters And really just all the positive energy and Well-thought sincere feedback. I always get Love you guys and hope Sincerely That you all are doing well and that you sleep even better Until next time take care


Section 90 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. This sleep-revox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Josh Kibbey. The Milking Pale. The following is another version of the preceding Diddy, and is the one most commonly sung. Ye nymphs and sylvan gods, that love green fields and woods, when spring newly borne herself does adorn, with flowers and blooming buds. Some sing in the praise, while flocks do graze, on yonder pleasant veil, of those that choose to milk their ewes, and in cold dews with clouted shoes to carry the milking pale. You goddess of the morn with blushes you adorn, and take the fresh air whilst the linets prepare a concert on each green thorn. The blackbird and thrush on every bush, and the charming nightingale, and merry vain their throats do strain, to entertain the jolly train of those of the milking pale. When cold bleak winds do roar, and flowers will spring no more, the fields that were seen so pleasant and green, with winter all candidor, see now the town last with her white face, and her lips so deadly pale, but it is not so with those that go, through frost and snow, with cheeks that glow, and carry the milking pale. The country light is free, from fears and jealousy, whilst upon the green he oft is seen with his last upon his knee, with kisses most sweet he doth or so treat, and swears her charms won't fail, but the London lasts in every place, with brazen face despises the grace of those of the milking pale. Section 91 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain. Recording by Linda Ray Nielsen, Vancouver, B.C. THE SUMMERS MORNING. This is a very old ditty, and a favourite with the peasantry in every part of England, but more particularly in the mining districts of the North. The tune is pleasing but uncommon. R.W. Dixon, Esquire of Seton Carroll, Durham, by whom the song was communicated to his brother for publication, says, I have written down the above verbatim, as generally sung. It will be seen that the last lines of each verse are not of equal length. The senior, however, makes all right and smooth. The words underlined in each verse are sung five times. Thus, they advent seed, they advent seed, they advent seed, they advent seed, they advent seed, me some money, ten guineas, and a crown. The last line is the sung, will be married, as the word is usually pronounced. Will be married, will be married, will be married, will be married, will be married, when I return again. The tune is given in popular music. Since this song appeared in the volume issued by the Percy Society, we have met with a copy printed at Devon Port. The readings are in general not so good, but in one or two instances they are apparently more ancient and are consequently here adopted. The Devon Port copy contains two verses, not preserved in our traditional version. These we have incorporated in our present text, in which they form the third and last stanzas. It was one summer's morning, as I went o'er the moss. I had no thought of listing, till the soldiers did me cross. They kindly did invite me to a flowing bowl, and down. They advanced, they advanced, they advanced, they advanced me some money, ten guineas, and a crown. It's true my love has listed, he wears a white cockade. He is a handsome tall young man, besides a roving blade. He is a handsome young man, and he is gone to serve the king. O my very, O my very, O my very, O my very heart is breaking for the loss of him. My love is tall and handsome, and comely fore to see, and by a sad misfortune a soldier now is he. I hope the man that listed him may not prosper night nor day, for I wish that, for I wish that, for I wish that, for I wish that, for I wish that the haunders may sink him in the sea. O may he never prosper, O may he never thrive, nor anything he takes in hand so long as he's alive. May the very grass he treads upon, the ground refuse to grow, since he's been, since he's been, since he's been, since he's been, since he's been the only cause of my sorrow, grief, and woe. Then he pulled out a handkerchief to wipe her flowing eyes, leave off those laminations, likewise those mournful cries, leave off your grief and sorrow, while I march o'er the plain. We'll be married, we'll be married, we'll be married, we'll be married, we'll be married when I return again. O now my love has listed, and I for him will rove. I'll write his name on every tree that grows in yonder grove, where the huntsman he does hollow and the hounds do sweetly cry, to remind me, to remind me, to remind me, to remind me of my plow-boy until the day I die. End of the summer's mourning. Section 92 of H. F. Porms and Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Larry Wilson. Old Adam. We have had considerable trouble in procuring a copy of this old song, which used in former days to be very popular with aged people resident in the north of England. It has been long out of print and handed down traditionally. By the kindness, however, of Mr. S. Swindells, printer Manchester, we have been favoured with an ancient printer copy, which Mr. Swindells observes he had great difficulty in obtaining. Some improvements have been made in the present edition for the recital of Mr. Effingham Wilson, who was familiar with the song in his youth. Both sexes give ear to my fancy, while in praise of dear woman I sing, confined not to maul, Sue or Nancy, but mates from a beggar to king. When Old Adam first was created, and Lord of the universe crowned, his happiness was not completed, until that an helpmate was found. He'd all things and food that were wanting to keep and support him through life. He'd horses and foxes for hunting, which some men love better than wife. He'd a garden so planted by nature man cannot produce in this life. But yet the all-wise great-creature still saw that he wanted a wife. Then Adam he laid in a slumber, and there he lost part of his side, and when he awoke with a wonder beheld his most beautiful bride. In transport he gazed upon her, his happiness now was complete. He praised his bountiful donor, who thus had bestowed him a mate. She was not took out of his head, sir, to reign in triumph over man, nor was she took out of his feet, sir, by man to be trampled upon. But she was took out of his side, sir, his equal and partner to be. But as they're united in one, sir, the man is the top of the tree. Did not let the fair be despised by man as she's part of himself, for woman by Adam was prized, more than the whole globe full of wealth. Man without a woman's a beggar, suppose the whole world he possessed, and the beggar that's got a good woman with more than the world he's blessed. End of Old Adam. Section 93 of Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England This liberal arts recording is in the public domain. Recording by Elaine Conway, England Tobacco This song is a mere adaptation of Smoking Spiritualised. The earliest copy of the abridgment we have, being able to meet with, is published in D'Arfi's Pills de Peuge Melancholy, 1719. To whether we are indebted for it to the author of the original poem, or to that bright genius Tom D'Arfi, as Burns calls him, we are not able to determine. The song has always been popular, the tune is in popular music. Tobacco is but an Indian weed, grows green in the morn, cut down at Eve. It shows our decay, we are but clay. Think of this when you smoke tobacco, the pipe that is so lily-white, wherein so many take delight, it's broken with a touch, man's life is such. Think of this when you take tobacco. The pipe that is so foul within, it shows man's soul is stained with sin. It does require to be purred with fire. Think of this when you smoke tobacco. The dust that from the pipe does fall, shows you are nothing but dust at all. For we came from the dust, and return we must. Think of this when you smoke tobacco. The ashes that are left behind, do serve to put us all in mind, that unto dust return we must. Think of this when you take tobacco. The smoke that does so high ascend, shows that man's life must have an end. The vape is gone, man's life is done. Think of this when you take tobacco. End of Tobacco. Section number 94 of ancient poems, ballads and songs of the peasantry of England. This Librovolts recording is in the public domain, recording by Elaine Conway, England. The Spanish Ladies. This song is ancient, but we have no means of ascertaining at what period it was written. Captain Marriott, in his novel of Poor Jack, introduces it and said it is old. It is a general favourite, the air is plaintive, and in the minor key. Farewell and adieu to you Spanish Ladies. Farewell and adieu to you Ladies of Spain, for we have received orders for to sail, for old England. But we hope in a short time to see you again, we'll rant and we'll roar like true British heroes. We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas, until we strike soundings in the Channel of Old England, from Ashant to Silly, is 35 Leeds. Then we hove our ship too, with the wind at our west, boys. We hove our ship too, for to strike soundings clear. We got soundings in 95 Fathom, and boldly up the Channel of Old England, a course we did steer. The first land we made, it, was called the Dead Man. First ramshed of Plymouth, start Portland, and White, passed by Beachy, by Fairleigh, and Dungeonass, and hove our ship too, off the South Fallen Light. Then a signal was made for the grand fleet to anchor, all in the downs that night fall to sleep, then stood by your stoppers, let go your shank painters, haul all your clue garnets, stick out tax and sheets.  Well drink and be jolly, and drown melancholy, so here's a good health to all true hearted souls. End of the Spanish Ladies Section 95 of ancient poems, ballads and songs of the peasantry of England. This liberal arts recording is in the public domain, recording by Elaine Conway, England. Harry the tailor, traditional. The following song was taken down some years ago, from the recitation of a country curate, who said he had learned it from a very old inhabitant of Methly, near Pontifract, Yorkshire. We have never seen it in print. When Harry the tailor was twenty years old, he began for to look with courage so bold. He told his old mother he was not ingest, but he would have a wife as well as the rest. Then Harry next morning, before it was day, to the house of his fair maid took his way. He found his dear Dolly a making of cheese, says he, you must give me a bus if you please. She up with a bowl the buttermilk flew, and Harry the tailor looked wonderful blue. Oh Dolly my dear, what hast thou done? From my back to my breeks has thy buttermilk run. She gave him a push he stumbled and fouled, down from the dairy into the draw while. Then Harry the ploughboy ran amane, and soon brought him up in the bucket again.  Oh, if this be called love, may the devil take all. End of Harry the tailor Section 96 of ancient poems, ballads, and songs of the peasantry of England. This Librivolts recording is in the public domain. Recording by Elaine Conway, England. Sir Arthur and Charming Moly Traditional. For this old Northumbrian song, we are indebted to Mr Robert Chambers. It was taken down from the recitation of a lady. The Sir Arthur is no less a personate than Sir Arthur Hazlerig, the governor of Tynmouth Castle, during the Protectorate of Cromwell. As noble Sir Arthur one morning did ride, with his hands at his feet, and his sword by his side. He saw a fair maid sitting under a tree. He asked her name, and she said, Twas Moly. Oh, Charming Moly, you my butler shall be, to draw the red wine. For yourself and for me, I'll make you a lady so high in degree. If you will but love me, my Charming Moly, I'll give you fine ribbons, I'll give you fine rings, I'll give you fine jewels, and many fine things. I'll give you a petticoat flanced to the knee, if you will but love me, my Charming Moly. I'll have none of your ribbons, and none of your rings, none of your jewels, and other fine things. And I've got a petticoat, suits my degree. And I'll near love a married man, till his wife, Dee.  Oh noble Sir Arthur, it must not be so. Go home to your wife, and let nobody know, for seven long years I will wait upon thee, but I'll near love a married man, till his wife, Dee. Now seven long years are gone, and are past, the old woman went to her long home at last. The old woman died, and Sir Arthur was free, and he soon came according to Charming Moly. Now Charming Moly in her carriage doth ride, with her hands at her feet, and her lord by her side. Now all ye fair maids, take a warning by me, and near love a married man, till his wife, Dee. End of Sir Arthur and Charming Moly, section 97 of ancient poems, ballads and songs of the peasantry of England. This liberal arts recording is in the public domain, recording by Elaine Conway, England. There was an old man who came over the Lee. This is a version of the Bailey of Barrick, which will be found in the local historians' table book. It was originally obtained from Warpath, and communicated by W. H. Longstaff, a squire of Darlington, who says, in many respects the Bailey of Barrick is the better addition. Still mine may furnish an extra stanza or two, and the Ha Ha Ha is better than Ha Ho, though the notes suit either version. There was an old man who came over the Lee Ha Ha Ha, but I won't have him. He came over the Lee, according to me, with his grey beard, newly shaven. My mother she bid me open the door, I opened the door, and he fell on the floor.  My mother she bid me give him some beer, I gave him some beer, and he thought it good cheer.  My mother she bid me light him to bed, I lit him to bed, and wished he were dead. My mother she bid me tell him to rise, I told him to rise, and he opened his eyes. My mother she bid me take him to church, I took him to church, and left him in the lurch, with his grey beard, newly shaven. End of There was an old man who came over the Lee. Section 98 of Ancient Poems Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England This Librivolts recording is in the public domain. Recording by Elaine Conway, England Why Should We Choral for Riches A version of this very favourite song may be found in Ramses Tea Table Miscellany. Though a sailor's song we question whether it is not a greater favourite with landsmen, the choruses become proverbial, and its philosophy has often been invoked to mitigate the evils and misfortunes of life. How pleasant a sailor's life passes, who roam over the watery main, no treasure he ever amasses, but cheerfully spends all his gain, were strangers to party and faction, to honour and honesty true, and would not commit a bad action, for power or profit in view. Then why should we quarrel for riches or any such glittering toys? A light heart and a thin pair of breeches will go through the world, my brave boys. The world is a beautiful garden, enriched with the blessings of life. The toiler with plenty rewarding, which plenty too often breeds strife, when terrible tempests assail us, and mountainous billows of fright, no grandeur or wealth can avail us. But skillful industry steers right, then why should we quarrel for riches or any such glittering toys? A light heart and a thin pair of breeches will go through the world, my brave boys. The courtier's more subject to dangers, who rules at the helm of the state, then we that, to politics strangers, escape the snares laid for the great, the various blessings of nature, in various nations we try, no mortals than us can be greater, who merrily live till we die. Then why should we quarrel for riches or any such glittering toys? A light heart and a thin pair of breeches will go through the world, my brave boys. End of Why Should We Quarrel For Riches? In 1999 of ancient poems, ballads and songs of the peasantry of England, this Librivolts recording is in the public domain, recording by Elaine Conway, England. Though merry fellows, all he that will not merry, merry be. The popularity of this old lyric, of which ours is the ballad printer's version, has been increased by the lively and appropriate music recently adapted to it by Mr Holderness. The date of this song is about the era of Charles II. Now, since we're met, let's merry, merry be. In spite of all our foes, and he that will not merry be, will pull him by the nose. Let him be merry, merry there, while we're all merry, merry here. For who can know where he shall go, to be merry another year? He that will not merry, merry be. With a generous bowl and a toast, may he in bride-well be shut up, and fast bound to a post. Let him be merry, merry there, while we're all merry, merry here. For who can know where he shall go, to be merry another year? He that will not merry, merry be. And to take his glass in course, may he be obliged to drink small beer, near a penny in his purse. Let him be merry, merry there, while we're all merry, merry here. For who can know where he shall go, to be merry another year? He that will not merry, merry be. With a company of jolly boys, may he be plagued with a scolding-wife, to confound him with her noise. Let him be merry, merry there, while we're all merry, merry here. For who can know where he shall go, to be merry another year? He that will not merry, merry be, with his sweet heart by his side. Let him be laid in the cold churchyard, with a headstone for his bride. Let him be merry, merry there, while we're all merry, merry here. For who can know where he shall go, to be merry another year? And of the merry fellows, all he that will not merry, merry be. Section 100 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and the Songs of the Peasantry of England This diddy still occasionally heard in the county districts seems to be the original of the very beautiful song, The Downhill of Life. The Old Man's Song may be found in Playford's Theatre of Music, 1685, but we are inclined to refer it to an earlier period. The song is also published by D. Irfy, accompanied by two objectionable parodies. If I live to grow old, for I find I go down, let this be my fate in a country town. May I have a warm house with a stone at the gate, and a cleanly young girl to rub my bald paint. May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as strength wears away, without gout or stone by a gentle decay, in a country town by a murmuring brook, with the ocean at distance on which I may look, with a spacious plain without hedge or style, and an easy pad neg to ride out a mile. May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as strength wears away, without gout or stone by a gentle decay, with hoarse and blue-tarch and one or two more of the best wits that lived in the age before, with a dish of roast mutton not venison or teal, and clean through coarse linen at every meal. May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as strength wears away, without gout or stone by a gentle decay, with a pudding on Sunday and stout humming liquor and remnants of Latin to welcome the vicar, with a hidden reserve of good burgundy wine to drink the king's health in as oft as I dine. May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as strength wears away, without gout or stone by a gentle decay. When the days are grown short, it freezes and snows, may I have a qual fire as high as my nose, a fire which once stirred up with a prong will keep the room temperate all the night long. May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as strength wears away, without gout or stone by a gentle decay, with a courage undaunted may I face my last day and when I am dead may the better sort say. When the morning went sober in the evening when mellow he's gone and he leaves not behind him his fellow, may I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as strength wears away, without gout or stone by a gentle decay. RITSEN speaks of a Robin Hood's hill near Gloucestershire, and of a foolish song about it, whether this is the song to which he alludes we cannot determine. We find it in notes and queries, where it is stated to be printed from a manuscript of the latter part of the last century, and described as a song well known in the district to which it refers. Ye bards who extol the gay valleys and glades, that jesmine bowers and amorous shades, who prospects so rural can boast at your will, yet never once mentioned sweet Robin Hood's hill. The spot which of nature displays every smile, from famed Gloucestershire city is distance to mile, of which you of you may obtain at your will, from the sweet rural summit of Robin Hood's hill, where a clear crystal spring does incessantly flow, to supply and refresh the fair valley below. No dog-stars brisk heat or diminished the rail, which sweetly doth prattle on Robin Hood's hill. Here gazing around, you find objects still new, of Severn's sweet windings, how pleasing the view, who stream with the fruits of blessed commerce doth fill, the sweet-smelling veil beneath Robin Hood's hill. This hill, though so lofty, yet fertile and rare, few valleys can with it for herbage compare, some far greater bard should as Lear, and his quill, direct to the praise of sweet Robin Hood's hill. Here lads and gay lasses in couples' resort, for sweet rural pastime an innocent sport, sure pleasures near flowed from gay nature or skill, like those that are found on sweet Robin Hood's hill. Had I all the riches of matchless Peru to revel in splendor as emperors do, I'd forfeit the whole with a hearty goodwill, to dwell in a cottage on Robin Hood's hill. Then poets, record my love theme in your laze, first view, then you'll own that disworthy of praise, nay Envy herself must acknowledge it still, that no spot so delightful as Robin Hood's hill. section 102 of ancient poems, ballads, and songs of the peasantry of England. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, B.C. Be gone, dull care. We cannot trace this popular ditty beyond the reign of James II. But we believe it to be older. The origin is to be found in an early French chanson. The present version has been taken down from the singing of an old Yorkshire yeoman. The third verse we have never seen in print, but it is always sung in the west of Yorkshire. Be gone, dull care. I prithee be gone from me. Be gone, dull care. Thou and I can never agree. Long while thou hast been tearing here, and feign thou wouldest may kill. But I faith, dull care. Thou never shall have thy will. Too much care will make a young man gray. Too much care will turn an old man to clay. My wife shall dance, and I shall sing, so merrily pass the day. For I hold it is the wisest thing to drive dull care away. Hence, dull care, all none of thy company. Hence, dull care, though art no pair for me, will hunt the wild boar through the wood, so merrily pass the day, and then at night, or a cheerful boar, will drive dull care away. End of Be Gone, dull care. Section 103 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, B.C. Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. The earliest copy of this playful song is one contained in a manuscript of the reign of James I, preserved amongst the registers of the stationaire's company, but the song can be traced back to 1566. Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. Upon the Beech and Tree. Your wives you well should look too, if you take advice of me. Cuckoo, cuckoo, alack the morn. When of married men, full nine in ten, must be content to wear the horn. Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. Upon the Oaken Tree. Your wives you well should look too, if you take advice of me. Cuckoo, cuckoo, alack the day. For married men, but now and then, can't escape to bear the horn away. Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. Upon the Ashen Tree. Your wives you well should look too, if you take advice of me. Cuckoo, cuckoo, alack the noon. When married men, must watch the hen, or some strange fox will steal her soon. Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. Upon the Older Tree. Your wives you well should look too, if you take advice of me. Cuckoo, cuckoo, alack the eve. When married men, must bid good then, to such as horns to them to give. Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. Upon the Aspen Tree. Your wives you well should look too, if you take advice of me. Cuckoo, cuckoo, alack the night. When married men, again and again, must hide their horns in their despite. End of Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. Section 104 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. This Librivox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Lynda M. R. Nielsen, Vancouver, B.C. Jockey to the Fair A version of this song, not quite so accurate as the following, was published from an old broadside in Notes and Queries, Vol. 7, page 49, where it is described as a very celebrated Gloucestershire ballad. But Gloucestershire is not exclusively entitled to the honour of this genuine old country song, which is well known in Westmoreland and other counties. Jockey songs constitute a distinct and numerous class, and belong for the most part to the middle of the last century, when Jockey and Jenny were formable rivals to the Strepons and Chloe's of the Artificial School of Pastoral Poetry. The author of this song, Whoever He Was, drew upon real rural life and not upon its fashionable masquerade. We have been unable to trace the exact date of this Dickie, which still enjoys in some districts a wide popularity. It is not to be found in any of several large collections of Ranla and Vauxhall songs, and other anthologies which we have examined. From the Christian names of the Lovers it might be supposed to be of Scotch or border origin, but Jockey to the Fair is not confined to the North, indeed it is much better known and more frequently sung in the South and West. T'was on the mourn of Sweet May Day, when nature painted all things gay, taught birds to sing and lambs to play, and gilled the meadows fair. Young Jockey, early in the dawn, arose and tripped it o'er the lawn. His Sunday clothes, the youth put on, for Jenny had vowed a way to run, with Jockey to the Fair. For Jenny had vowed a way to run, with Jockey to the Fair. The cheerful parish bells had rung, with eager steps he trudged along. While flowery garlands round him hung, which shepherds used to wear. He tapped the window, haste, my dear! Jenny impatient cried, who's there? Tis I, my love, and no one near. Step gently down, you've not to fear, with Jockey to the Fair. Step gently down, you've not to fear, with Jockey to the Fair. My dad and ma'am are fast asleep, my brother's up and with the sheep, and will you still your promise keep, which I have heard you swear? And will you ever, constant prove, I will, by all the powers above, and near deceive my charming dove, dispel these doubts, and haste my love, with Jockey to the Fair. Dispel these doubts, and haste my love, with Jockey to the Fair. Behold the ring, the shepherd cried, will Jenny be my charming bride, that Cupid be our happy guide, and Hyman meet us there. Then Jockey did his vows renew. He would be constant, would be true. His word was pledged, away she flew, or Cowslips tipped, with Balmy do, with Jockey to the Fair, or Cowslips tipped, with Balmy do, with Jockey to the Fair.  Each join the dance, each raise the song, to hail the happy pair. In turns there's none so loud as they. They bless the kind, promptitious day. The smiling morn of Blooming May, when lovely Jenny ran away, with Jockey to the Fair, when lovely Jenny ran away, with Jockey to the Fair. In of Jockey to the Fair Section 105 Of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain. Recording by Linda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, B.C. Long Preston Peg. Mr. Birkbeck of Three Planned House, Lintondale, in Craven, has favored us with the following fragment. The tune is well known in the North, but all attempts on the part of Mr. Birkbeck to obtain the remaining verses have been unsuccessful. The song is evidently of the date of the First Rebellion, 1715. Long Preston Peg, too proud Preston went, to see the Scotch rebels, it was her intent. A noble Scotch lord, as he passed by, on this Yorkshire damsel, did soon cast an eye. He called to a servant, which on him did wait, go down to young girl, who stands in the gate. That sings with a voice so soft and sweet, and in my name do her lovingly greet. End of Long Preston Peg Section 106 Of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, recording by Linda Marie Nielsen Vancouver, B.C. The Sweet Nightingale, or, down in those valleys below, an ancient Cornish song. This curious ditty, which may be confidently assigned to the 17th century, is said to be a translation from the ancient Cornish tongue. We first heard it in Germany, in the pleasure gardens of the Marienburg, on the Moselle. The singers were four Cornish miners, who were at that time, 1854, employed at some lead mines near the town of Zell. The leader or captain, John Stocker, said that the song was an established favourite with the lead miners of Cornwall and Devonshire, and was always sung on the pay days, and at the wakes, and that his grandfather, who died thirty years before, at the age of a hundred years, used to sing the song and say that it was very old. Stocker promised to make a copy of it, but there was no opportunity of procuring it before we left Germany. The following version has been supplied by a gentleman in Plymouth, who writes, I have had a great deal of trouble about the valley below. It is not in print. I first met with one person who knew one part, then with another person who knew another part, but nobody could sing the whole. At last Chance directed me to an old man at work on the roads, and he sung and recited it throughout, not exactly, however, as I sent it, for I was obliged to supply a little here and there, but only where a bad rhyme, or rather none at all, made it evident what the real rhyme was. I have read it over to a mining gentleman at Churro, and he says, it is pretty near the way we sing it. The tune is plaintive and original. My sweetheart come along, don't you hear the fawn song, the sweet notes of the nightingale flow, don't you hear the fawn tale of the sweet nightingale, as she sings in those valleys below, so be not afraid to walk in the shade, nor yet in those valleys below, nor yet in those valleys below. Pretty Betsy, don't fail, for I'll carry your pail, save home to your cot as we go, you shall hear the fawn tale of the sweet nightingale, as she sings in those valleys below, but she was afraid to walk in the shade, to walk in those valleys below, to walk in those valleys below. Pray let me alone, I have hands of my own, along with you I will not go, to hear the fawn tale of the sweet nightingale, as she sings in those valleys below, for I am afraid to walk in the shade, to walk in those valleys below, to walk in those valleys below. Pray sit yourself down, with me on the ground, on this bank where sweet prim roses grow, you shall hear the fawn tale of the sweet nightingale, as she sings in those valleys below, so be not afraid to walk in the shade, nor yet in those valleys below, nor yet in those valleys below. This couple agreed they were married with speed, and soon to the church they did go, she was no more afraid for to walk in the shade, nor yet in those valleys below, nor to hear the fawn tale of the sweet nightingale, as she sung in those valleys below, as she sung in those valleys below. End of The Sweet Nightingale. Section 107 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Linda Ray Nielsen, Vancouver, B.C. The Old Man and His Three Sons. This traditional diddy founded upon the old ballad inserted ante page 124 is current as a nursery song in the north of England. There was an old man and sons he had three. Windwell Lion Good Hunter, a friar he being one of the three, with pleasure he ranged the north country, for he was a jovial hunter. As he went to the woods some pastime to see, Windwell Lion Good Hunter, he spied a fair lady under a tree, sighing and moaning mournfully, he was a jovial hunter. What are you doing, my fair lady? Windwell Lion Good Hunter, I am frightened the wild boar he will kill me. He has worried my lord and wounded thirty, as thou art a jovial hunter. Then the friar he put his horn to his mouth, Windwell Lion Good Hunter, and he blew a blast east-west, north and south, and the wild boar from his den he came forth, unto the jovial hunter. In Of The Old Man and His Three Sons Section 108 of Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, this Liber-Vox recording is in the public domain, recording by Linda Marie Nielsen Vancouver, B.C. A Bigging We Will Go The authorship of this song is attributed to Richard Broome, he who once performed a servant's faithful part for Ben Johnson, in a black letter copy in the Bagford Collection, where it is entitled The Beggar's Chorus in the Jovial Crew, to an excellent new tune. No such chorus, however, appears in the play, which was produced at the cockpit in 1641, and the probability is, as Mr. Chappell conjectures, that it was only interpolated in the performance. It is sometimes called the Jovial Beggar. The tune has been from time to time introduced into several ballad operas, and the song says Mr. Chappell, who publishes the air in his popular music, is the prototype of many others, such as a bowling we will go, a fishing we will go, a hawking we will go, and a fishing we will go. The last named is still popular with those who take delight in hunting, and the air is now scarcely known by any other title.  Seven years I begged for my old master wild, he taught me to beg when I was but a child, and a begging we will go, will go, will go, and a begging we will go. I begged for my master and got him store of pelf, but now Jovial be praised, I'm begging for myself, and a begging we will go, will go, and a begging we will go. In a hollow tree I live and pay no rent, providence provides for me, and I am well content, and a begging we will go, will go, will go, and a begging we will go. Of all the occupations a beggar's life the best, for when er he's weary, he'll lay him down and rest, and a begging we will go, will go, will go, and a begging we will go. I fear no plots against me, I live in open cell, then who would be a king when beggars live so well, and a begging we will go, will go, will go, and a begging we will go. End of A Begging We Will Go. End of Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England