To market goes Joan (Samuel Webbe)

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Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-01).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 287 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition comprises both a modern realisation, and a statement of the piece in its original specialised format.

General Information

Title: To market goes Joan
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composer^{create page}

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTT
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: Unknown

First published: 1780
Description: Included in Warren's seventeenth collection of glees and catches without attribution, this is one of those catches that is more lubricious in performance than the anodyne lyrics might suggest.

Original text and translations

English text

To market goes Joan for a new copper kettle
Her spousie remarkably fond of that metal;
"Here is one secondhand, and a pretty one too,
And a bargain it is if you think it will do.
See, see here's a hole, come stop it" quoth Joan,
"For I am in haste and I want to be gone".
"I see it, but that's but a trifle" quoth Tink,
"And a new one will come to a little more chink".