Brose and Butter

X: 1
T:Brose and Butter
S:Digital Tradition, brose2
N:St. 2 in Herd 1776 II.203-4, part of a rather suggestive song
N:that has parallels which are downright bawdy:
B:Chambers PRS (1847), 186; (1870), 23
B:Ford CR 18; Montgomerie SNR (1946), 20 (no. 6).
Z:dt:brose2
M:9/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=100
W:Gi'e my love brose, brose,
W:Gi'e my love brose and butter,
W:Gi'e my love brose, brose,
W:Yestreen he wanted his supper.
W:
W:Jenny sits up in the laft,
W:Jocky wad fain hae been at her,
W:There came a wind out of the wast,
W:Made a' the windows to clatter.
W:Gi'e my love, &c.
W:
W:A goose is nae good meat,
W:A hen is boss within,
W:In a pye there's muckle deceit,
W:A pudding it is a good thing.
W:Gi'e my love, &c.
K:A
E|A3/2B/c AFF A-FF|A3/2B/c A-FF GEE|A3/2B/c AFF A-FF|G3/2-A/B BcB GGE|
A3/2B/c e-c-c ecc|A3/2B/c e-cc eBB|A3/2-B/c ecc e-cc|G3/2-A/B B-cB GG||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• www.atrilcoral.com/Partituras_ABC/b.zip/b/1257
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/01841
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/01841
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mucl.de/~mdoering/dt-songs/0034
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/b/1257