Budgeon it is a Delicate Trade (The)

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Theme code Index	17 3b2 3b2 11
Also known as	Budgeon it is a Fine Trade (The)
Composer/Core Source	Biography:Jolly Miller
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	2 flats
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:William Chappell
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Popular Music of the Olden Times vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	p. 124
Year of publication/Date of MS	1859
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BUDGEON IT IS A DELICATE/FINE TRADE, THE. AKA and see "Jolly Miller." English, Air (6/8 time). G Minor (Chappell): A Minor (Scott). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Chappell (1859) gives that the 'budge' is a particular type of burglar who "slips into houses in the dark, to steal cloaks and other articles near the door." The air appears in the ballad operas The Quakers' Opera (1728), The Fashionable Lady, and Love in a Village (1762), but the song first appeared in The Canting Academy (2nd ed.) of 1674. Scott ascribes the words to Charles Coffey, from his The Devil to Pay, and notes the tune is the "Jolly Miller," further stating: "It is interesting to notice how a cheerful song like 'The Miller of Dee' which this most usually is, can take on such an obligingly tragic ring under the persuasion of Mr. Coffey."

Tho' ravished from my husband's arms,
To dwell in stench and pain,
I'll break thro' all their Majick charms
And liberty regain.
Then sweet Revenge shall calm my woes,
And every grief asswage;
Whilst all who did my bliss oppose
Shall feel my powerful rage.

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time), vol. 2, 1859; p. 124. Scott (English Song Book), 1926; p. 14.

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S:Chappell - Popular Music of the Olden Time  (1859)
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