What you hear on the radio these days...

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I was idlely listening to ABC Classical FM, enjoying a set of 3 quite nice songs as sung by an australian tenor. The first and last were in French or Italian or something but the second... I didn't quite believe my ears with respect to the chorus. Nah, can't be... Took note of the title (Will you buy a fine dog?)??? and composer (Morley), googled, and lo and behold...

Will you buy a fine dog?
With a hole in his head:
With a dildo,
With a dildo dildo,
With a dildo dildo dildo;

Muffs, puffs, ribatos, and fine sister's threads:
With a dildo,
With a dildo dildo,
With a dildo dildo ...

I stand not on points, pins, periwigs, combs, glasses,
Gloves, garters, girdles, busks for the brisk lasses;
But I have other dainty, dainty tricks:
Sleek stones and potting sticks:
With a dildo dildo dildo,
Diddle diddle dildo ...

And for a need,
My pretty pretty pretty pods:
Amber, civet, and musk cods:
With a dildo,
With a diddle diddle dildo,
With a diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle
Diddle diddle dildo,
With a dildo:
Diddle diddle diddle diddle
Diddle diddle dildo.

From the end of Sir Thomas Morley's First Book of Ayres, published in 1601, song author unattributed.
Info from http://www.craigminstrel.com/lyrics.htm, bottom of the page, but Thomas Morley comes up as important in the Madrigal world through a lot of links.

Must look at more Elizabethan Madrigals. I knew they got bawdy but...
Looking forward to madrigals after midnight in the wine bar at Festival:)

[Edit - LJ spell checker really didn't like that one - really needs to be educated]

Curious, and on public radio in the middle of the day...