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Title
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Leather breeches
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Singer
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Avery, William
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Notes
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Note 1
Alfred Williams - ';This was sung for many years by George Hicks of Aldsworth, formerly of Sherborne, an old Morris dancer.';
Note 2
At this point the manuscript ends. It is the reverse side of the ';Ploughman'; song Gl 33, a version of ';Painful plough';. It may, in the light of Note 3 be in Avery’s own hand.
Note 3
In the note to the version of this song which appears in the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard Williams says that he collected the song from William Avery. Note 1 is the attribution on the manuscript. However, George Hicks died in 1900 and his wife, Emma, was lodging with William Avery in 1901.
Williams used the passive form of describing a singer’s location when he did not collect the song in that place. Of Ogbourne when describing David Sawyer’s location is an example. Here Williams does not say that he collected it from Hicks, but that it was sung by him. Hence my attribution to Avery.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2014.
