audience

The City Waites's lyrics & chords

The City Waites is an English early-music ensemble, playing popular music and ballads from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They have been working since the early 70s, with a changing line-up built around founding members Lucie Skeaping, Roddy Skeaping and Doug Wootton. Their style is exuberant, and they frequently showcase the bawdier end of the ballad spectrum in their programmes. The members are technically very accomplished instrumentalists, and the sound is authentic. Doug Wootton plays lute, Lucie Skeaping is the main...read more

england be glad

old england grown new

seldom cleanly

the downfall of dancing

the north country lovers

a good misfortune

the famous ratcatcher

the baffled knight

london mourning in ashes

10.

give me my yellow hose again

11.

a merry jest of john thomson

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

the broom of the cowdenknowes

18.

the three ravens

19.

the nota and the english dance

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

tomorrow the fox will come to town

25.

26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

31.

32.

the gelding of the devil

33.

the beehive

34.

how to court and obtain a young lass

35.

the punks delight

36.

lady of pleasure

37.

blowzabella my bouncing doxie

38.

there was a lass of islington

39.

tobacco is an indian weed

40.

the crossed couple

41.

pastime with good company

42.

sometimes i am a tapster new

43.

as oyster nan stood by her tub

44.

a vindication of a departed maidenhead

45.

you lasses and lads

46.

the jolly brown turd

47.

the lusty young smith

48.

would ye have a young virgin of fifteen years

49.

the fairy round

50.

martin said to his man

51.

52.

53.

54.

55.

i hate a fop that at his glass

56.

what life can compare with the jolly town rakes

57.

when celia learning on the spinet to play

58.

lady in the dark

59.

oyster nan

60.

poor celia once was very fair

61.

tom making a manteau

62.

when for air i take my mare

63.

greensleeves and yellow lace

64.

like a ring without a finger

65.

the bluebell of scotland

66.

sing we and chant it

67.

miss nelly

68.

how vile are the sordid intrigues of the town

69.

with my strings of small wire lo i come

70.

i have been a foster

71.

the disappointment

72.

the jovial lass or dol and roger

73.

blue petticoats or green garters

74.

young collin cleaving of a beam

75.

through the cold shady woods

76.

sir eglamore or courage crowned with conquest

77.

watkyns ale

78.

the husband who met his match

79.

oh how you protest

80.

stantipes

81.

grim king of the ghosts or the lunatick lover

82.

and old song on the spanish armada

83.

cuckolds all in a row

84.

chi passa

85.

now is the month of maying

86.

gather your rosebuds

87.

the saint turned sinner

88.

the downright merry wooing of john and joan

89.

three country dances in one

90.

91.

92.

93.

94.

95.

96.

97.

98.

99.

Galliard Pox on you for a fop Tom making a manteau and when celia was learning Lillibulero The spanish gypsy The great booby One misty moisty morning British medieval medley All in garden green Good advice to batchelors

Show All Tracks