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The Proud Pedlar

from A Baker's Dozen by Mary Humphreys and Anahata

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The only song-collecting that Ralph Vaughan Williams did in Cambridgeshire in 1908 was from a 73 year old farm worker known as “Billy Waggs” in the Red Lion pub in Orwell. William Gray Wagstaff (his baptismal name) was born at Arrington in 1833 and lived in Orwell for most of his working life. Billy Waggs only knew two and a half verses of the song which is printed in full in the third volume of the Roxburgh ballads. I so enjoyed the Beaumontish metaphor involving baking implements that I just had to adapt the text into modern English and sing it. It has also given us the title for the CD. The story is ancient, having been used in Bocaccio's Decameron (2nd tale, 8th day).
I have to thank the late Malcolm Douglas of Sheffield who set me on the trail of the source of the ballad text. I have also recently been informed by Adam Harvey of Bury St Edmunds that RVW used the tune in the Melodrama, Number 16 in the incidental music to Aristophanes’ play, The Wasps which was composed in 1909 for a performance in Trinity College, Cambridge. It is one of the few places where RVW actually quotes a folk tune in his music.
~ Mary Humphreys

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from A Baker's Dozen, released June 6, 2012
Mary Humphreys: Vocal, banjo
Anahata: cello

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