Bawdy Ballads
Alex MorganWelcome all you wonderful people, and thank you so much for checking out Bawdy Ballads, where we will explore all the dirty, sassy, and usually surprising old popular songs, and when I say old… I mean old. Four hundred years old old. And along the way we’ll explore all those things that make life a bit more interesting. There’s trickery infidelity, loving, drinking, and fighting. While we dig deep... more
| Publishes | Infrequently | Episodes | 26 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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We are finally getting to one of the ballad types and topics that made me realize how much potential lay in these old songs…. Monstrous births. Or, to be clear, that's how they were marketed at the time. They were actually an overall mix of true acco... more
Welcome everyone to Episode 19 Where we are looking at all the ways to woo those wonderful and witty wenches… or the ones who value knowledge over marriage, the one’s that fit the Athena archetype.
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A mad kinde of wooing
Har... more
Today we look at both the history and one of the earliest versions of the Robin Hood legend, which spread and gained popularity largely through the ballad traditions. While we do we will look at how he fits in with that classic trickster archetype, a... more
Today we do a bit of background in how song and politics intermingle from the key years of the English Civil War and look at the ballad "LONDONS Warning-Peece,
Being, The Common-Prayers Complaint." from 1643.
LONDONS Warning-Peece, BEING, The Commo... more
Today we look at the timelessness of fart jokes, and look at a couple of them inside ballads, and parts of Jonathan Swift's “The Benefit of Farting Explained,” which is a satirical essay on why farting should be free. We will also look at two parents... more
Welcome back all you wonderfully curious lil’ devils to Bawdy Ballads and today’s episode, “Taking dem kids, or the Poor Act of 1601" where we will look at one of the most important laws in terms of ballad sellers, often considered vagrants, but we ... more
Today we look at some of the ways that addiction presents itself in popular songs, and briefly look at some surprising facts about Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare himself was likely a user of both cannabis and cocaine.
Doctor... more
Today we look at mentions of abortion in traditional ballads and the various life and death consequences of historical pregnancy and childbirth.
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Tam Lin: History and versions from Mainly Norfolk
“Bonny Jean of Aberdeen”... more
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