These songs are almost exclusively drawn from Pills to Purge Melancholy by Thomas Du'Urfey's.
The WORDS, which are an important part of the art of a bawdy song, are nearly lost in the music and by the arrangements on this CD. I have placed the texts below so that you can actually understand what is being sung.
It was a very poor choice to place two instrumental non-bawdy pieces first on a CD that is supposed to be bawdy.
As far as intelligible bawdy songs from Pills to Purge Melancholy, you should look to Ed McCurdy's Naughty & Bawdy Songs of Old England LPs and the City Waits CD.
- Baltimore Consort / Merry Companions
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The Art of the Bawdy Song
- I Gave Her Cakes and I Gave Her Ale Time: 1:17
- Taking His Beer With Old Anacharses Time: 1:04
- Fye, Nay, Prithee John Time: 0:57
- Cold and Raw Time: 3:14
- Miller's Daughter Time: 1:12
- Will Said to His Mammy Time: 2:13
- Old Fumbler Time: 1:15
- Walking in a Meadowe Greene Time: 3:54
- Celia Learning on the Spinnet Time: 1:32
- Tom the Taylor Time: 1:03
- My Lady's Coachman John Time: 1:09
- Irish Jig (The Night Ramble) Time: 2:27
- Come Sirrah Jacke Hoe Time: 2:03
- Dainty Fine Aniseed Water Time: 1:05
- Most Men Do Love the Spanish Wine Time: 1:04
- My Lady and Her Maid Time: 0:48
- As Roger Last Night to Jenny Lay Close Time: 1:19
- Pox on You Time: 1:33
- Ladie Lie Near Me Time: 2:24
- 'tis Women Makes Us Love Time: 1:05
- Sir Walter Enjoying His Damsel Time: 1:02
- My Thing Is My Own Time: 3:53
- Here Dwells a Pretty Maid Time: 0:38
- My Man John Had a Thing That Was Long Time: 1:49
- When First Amyntas Sued for a Kiss Time: 2:49
- More Palatino Time: 2:57
- Poor Owen Time: 2:26
- Where They Drank Time: 0:33
- Come, Come, Let Us Drink Time: 1:34
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