Cavalilly Man, The

DESCRIPTION: "As from Newcastle I did pass, I heard a blythe and bonny lass That in the Scottish army was, Say, 'Prithee let me gang with thee, man.'" She begs her Cavalier to let her come with him
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1670 (The Dancing Master)
KEYWORDS: love separation
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 330-441, "Cavalilly Man" (1 tune, partial text)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic II, pp. 22-27, "Cavalilly Man" (1 tune, partial text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Banks of the Nile (Men's Clothing I'll Put On II)" [Laws N9] (plot) and references there
SAME TUNE:
Hi-ho, my heart it is light/The Well-shaped West-Country Lass (Olson-BroadsideBalladIndex ZN1153)
Hie hoe, pray what shall I do/Roger, the West Country Lad (Olson-BroadsideBalladIndex ZN1154)
From the tap in the guts of the honourable stump/A Litany from Geneva (Olson-BroadsideBalladIndex ZN936)
NOTES [81 words]: The text in Chappell is incomplete, so it is impossible to tell if this is actually a cross-dressing song along the lines of "The Banks of the Nile." The plot, however, is obviously similar.
The reference to a "Cavalilly" (i.e. a Cavalier) is clearly a reference to the Cavaliers, supporters of Charles I in the English Civil War of the 1640s.
This is another song which cannot be shown to exist in tradition. Its use for several broadsides, however, argues for its presence here. - RBW
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File: ChWII026

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