No syphilis today, but theres misery a-plenty with this jolly tale of alcoholism and domestic violence. There is an Old English Street Ballad from the Early 19th Century that starts almost identically to this song and it is called William an Dinah. It is a comedy song about a pair of drunken good-for-nothings that turns up again in 1840 as a Music Hall standard called Villikens and his Dinah. I dont remember when I first heard this song but it cant have struck me as anything special at the time. The lyrics, though, were somewhat tamer than in this version and told of a girl who married beneath her and was poorer as a married woman than she had been as a single girl. It seemed to me to be a chirpy little tune with a moaning and whining narrative. Some years later I heard it sung at a spontaneous open mic spot (no mics at all, actually) at The Old Dungeon Ghyll Pub at the foot of The Langdale Pikes in Cumbria. This time the lyrics were almost the same as the ones I have sung here - the narrative is the same, at least - and were sung by a fantastic female vocalist whose name I did not catch or I do not remember. She sang this song, Liverpool Lullaby and South Australia accompanied by a chap on an English Concertina and an elderly bloke on the spoons. I jotted the lyrics down as best I could remember when I got into my tent that night - did I mention it was a camping trip? But then promptly lost them. This, then, is my paraphrasing of that utterly brilliant version I heard in ...
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