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Title
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Football match
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Singer
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Pillinger, John
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Notes
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Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'Lovers of football - and they are numerous! -
should be interested in this very old and quaint song descriptive of a football match once played on Salisbury Plain. It would appear that but six players took part in the game, and they were dressed with ribbons and caps or hats, after the fashion of the Morris dancers. I do not know whether or not they had the referee, or whether such practices as that of stabbing the ball with a knife were considered lawful and fair. I obtained the piece of John Pillinger, who learned it of his father at Lechlade, over seventy years ago.'
Williams, Alfred: FSUT: 'Lovers of football - and they are numerous! -
should be interested in this very old and quaint song descriptive of a football match once played on Salisbury Plain. It would appear that but six players took part in the game, and they were dressed with ribbons and caps or hats, after the fashion of the Morris dancers. I do not know whether or not they had the referee, or whether such practices as that of stabbing the ball with a knife were considered lawful and fair. I obtained the piece of John Pillinger, who learned it of his father at Lechlade, over eighty years ago.'
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
