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Track(s) taken from CDH55013

The Saint Turned Sinner, or The Dissenting Parson's Text Under the Quaker's Petticoats

First line:
You friends to reformation
composer
Anonymous - Baroque
'A Soldier and a Sailor'
author of text
Anonymous - traditional
from the Bagford Collection

The City Waites
Recording details: October 1980
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: January 1988
Total duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Splendid, vigorous, animated, hilarious’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘Rollicking good fun’ (The Cornish Guardian)

‘Highly entertaining’ (Classical Music)
During the seventeenth century the Quakers were subjected to much abuse and suffering at the hands of authority, the Church of England, and an ignorant public. This ballad (from the Bagford Collection) reflects the attitudes of the times and in this respect is a bigoted and unpleasant piece. As a vigorous and descriptive example of balladry, however, it is unsurpassed. It is set to the magnificent tune of ‘A Soldier and a Sailor’.

from notes by Douglas Wootton © 1981

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