Moldywarp. Roose.0001

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T:Moldywarp. Roose.0001
T:Moldwarp. (Talea Europeae) Roose.0001
T:Modiewark. Roose.0001
B:J.Roose MS, Manchester, 1850
Z:Village Music Project 2019 Eric Conrad
D:Argo ZFB.67 (1968). Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. The Wanton Muse.
N:Ewan MacColl, editor. Folk songs and ballads of Scotland. 1965 (Oak, NY) p61.
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=120
N:According to Chris Walshaw in the ABC transcribers' group, 'moldywarp' is a
N:colloquial term for 'mole'.  (Thanks to commenters who helped to decipher the title.)
N:
N:From dictionary.com, 'moldwarp' (no 'y') refers to the common European mole Talea europeae.
N:(The word comes through Middle English from Old Saxon and means earth-thrower.  Both
N:'mole' and 'mold' are cognates for the first word in the compound.)  The term "modiewark",
N:seems to now refer to an alternating current field detector.
N:
N:Jack Campin alerted me to Ewan MacColl's version of a bawdy ballad called "Modiewark",
N:collected by Robert Burns.  MacColl's tune appears to be essentially the same tune
N:as found in the MS, but keyed in Gm, with a singing tempo of 3/8=56, and with
N:a number of embellishments for singing.  The title is printed (possibly censored)
N:as "Nowdiewark" on the Argo record in the discography above.  In the 1965 Oak book,
N:the title is printed as "Modieward", but this is probably just a misprint.
N:
N:"The modiewark has done me ill, And below my apron has biggit a hill; I maun consult some learned
N:clark About this wanton modiewark. An' o the wanton modiewark..." -- from Robert Burns
K:Dm
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|: A | fef gfg | ac'a gfe | fed efg | a2A A3 |
fef gfg | ac'a gfe | fed cAc | d2D D2 :|