Rocking Me Babies
Date: 12/30
Also known as The Charlady’s Son and John rather mischievously says, “Here’s one I learnt from Mike Waterson. I’ve tried using this as a bedtime song for the kids but it seems a bit wrong somehow!” Bert Lloyd refers to this on the sleeve notes of Mike’s album as being a marriage of two songs, a music hall number from the 1860s and a rather older folk song sometime’s known as Rocking A Baby That’s None Of My Own. You can read those notes here at Mainly Norfolk and may also want to check out Mudcat, where you’ll also find this link through to a Bodleian library version that has that latter title’s cuckold’s lament. It’s somewhat more thoroughly tragic, almost epic in its misery while this is somewhat distilled perhaps as a singalong number.
You can buy the December digital album now from all good download stores.