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shredsandpatches:runecestershire:ellenkushner:itinerantvae:ellenkushner:abotl:ellenkushner:houghtonlib:You'l never get her up, or, Love in a tree. Being a pleasant new song, shewing how a maid was got with child, without lying with a man. To the tune of Buggering oats prepare thy neck, 1688.*EBB65H v.2 No. 314Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityYa hate to think what “Buggering Oats Prepare Thy Neck” sounded like!What I like best about this is not that there was a song titled “Buggering Oats Prepare Thy Neck”, but that it was well-known enough to be the version of the tune referenced by other ballads. That people would go “Oh, yeah! That one!”Yup!A touch of research suggests that this tune was also known as “The Doubting Virgin” or “The Repriev’d Captive” and if you want to know what the tune sounded like, you can have a listen to a recording by Dapper’s Delight here. Or you can pop over to CD Baby and buy the track/their album.I can’t find any lyrics to “Buggering Oats Prepare Thy Neck”, though. I’m guessing that Playford’s only has the melody. However, you CAN find the full lyrics to “You’ll Never Get Her Up” at the English Broadside Ballad Archive as well as the lyrics to “The Lover’s Prophesie”, another ballad set to the same melody.Hot damn!  This is useful and excellent.  Thank you so much.  Now we can all sing along!The link to the recording of Buggering Oats doesn’t work in the US, so here’s a spotify link. It’s actually quite a lovely tune. Just to clarify, “Buggering Oats” is probably Titus Oates and not some sort of sodomitical porridge. Oates was infamous for his “exposure” of the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy against Charles II that involved a huge number of people up to and including the Queen, Catherine of Braganza, except it didn’t really because Oates had made the whole thing up. He was eventually convicted of sedition, flogged, pilloried, and imprisoned, and died in obscurity, but not before numerous people were wrongfully executed on account of Oates’s “evidence.”Oh, and also the “buggering” part may have been accurate, as he was accused of it while serving as a ship’s chaplain, although he avoided any penalty on account of being a clergyman. -- source link

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