{"id":7444,"date":"2012-06-01T06:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T10:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2019-11-07T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:09:09","slug":"when-joness-ale-was-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7444","title":{"rendered":"When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Joneses_Ale.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Jonses_Ale.mp3\">When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<strong>This marks the 200th song in the Folk Den!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New&#8221; is a popular drinking song from Olde England, circa 1594. The first printed version was entered at Stationer&#8217;s Register in 1595, &#8220;a ballet intituled Jone&#8217;s ale is newe&#8217;, entered by John Danter. It appears in Thomas D&#8217;Urfey&#8217;s Pills to Purge Melancholy,1707 edition, vol III, no. 133, and in Vol V in 1719, as The Jovial Tinker, with the tune. William Chappell quoted this introduction, from a broadside collection in the Bodleian Library: All you that do this merry ditty view.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8 Taste of Joan&#8217;s ale, for it is strong and new.<\/p>\n<p>The full title was: &#8220;Joan&#8217;s ale is new; or a new, merry medley, shewing the power, the strength, the operation and the virtue that remains in good ale, which is accounted the mother drink of England.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also know as: When Johnson&#8217;s Ale Was New \/ When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New<\/p>\n<p>[ Roud 139 ; Ballad Index Doe168 ; trad.]<\/p>\n<p>A.L. Lloyd sang &#8220;When Johnson&#8217;s Ale Was New&#8221; in 1956 on his Riverside album English Drinking Songs. He commented in the sleeve notes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here and there at Easter time, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jolly-boys\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pace-eggers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d go from house to house, singing songs and begging for eggs. They wear clownish disguises: the hunch-backed man, the long-nosed man, the fettered prisoner, the man-woman etc. Johnson&#8217;s Ale (or John&#8217;s or Joan&#8217;s) is one of their favourite songs. Whether the drinking song comes from the pace-egging version or the other way round, we do not know. It is an old song. Ben Johnson knew it and mentioned it in his 16th century Tale of a Tub. Its qualities are durable, for it has altered little in 350 years. It appeals most to those who are most elevated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some say this song derives its name from the pub owner, Davy Jones, who would put drunken sailors into his ale locker and sell them as crew to passing ships; hence the phrase &#8220;Davy Jones Locker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or it could possibly refer to good natured Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org UNC Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[C] Come all you honest labouring men that work hard all the day,<br \/>\nAnd join with me at the Barley Mow to [Dm] pass an hour [G] away,<br \/>\nWhere we can sing and drink and be merry,<br \/>\nAnd [F] drive away all our cares and worry,<br \/>\n[C] When Jones&#8217;s ale was new, [Am] my boys, when [G] Jones&#8217;s ale was [C] new.<\/p>\n<p>And they ordered their [G] pints of beer and bottles of sherry<br \/>\n[F] To carry them over the [C] hills so merry,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, [Am] my boys, when  [G] Jones&#8217;s ale [C] was new.<\/p>\n<p>The first to come in was the Ploughman with sweat all on his brow,<br \/>\nUp with the lark at the break of day he guides the speedy plough,<br \/>\nHe drives his team, how they do toil,<br \/>\nO&#8217;er hill and valley to turn the soil,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>And they ordered their pints of beer and bottles of sherry<br \/>\nTo carry them over the hills so merry,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>The next to come was the Blacksmith his brawny arms all bare,<br \/>\nAnd with his pint of Jones&#8217;s ale he has no fear or care,<br \/>\nThroughout the day his hammer he&#8217;s swinging,<br \/>\nAnd he sings when he hears the anvil ringing,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>And they ordered their pints of beer and bottles of sherry<br \/>\nTo carry them over the hills so merry,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>The next to come in was the Scytheman so cheerful and so brown,<br \/>\nAnd with the rhythm of his scythe the corn he does mow down,<br \/>\nHe works, he mows, he sweats and he blows.<br \/>\nAnd he leaves his swathes laying all in rows,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>And they ordered their pints of beer and bottles of sherry<br \/>\nTo carry them over the hills so merry,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>The next to come in was the Tinker and he was no small beer drinker<br \/>\nAnd he was no small beer drinker to join the jovial crew,<br \/>\nHe told the old woman he&#8217;d mend her old kettle,<br \/>\nGood Lord how his hammer and tongs did rattle,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>And they ordered their pints of beer and bottles of sherry<br \/>\nTo carry them over the hills so merry,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>Now here is Jones our Landlord a jovial man is he,<br \/>\nLikewise his wife a buxom lass who joins in harmony,<br \/>\nWe wish them happiness and good will<br \/>\nWhile our pots and glasses they do fill,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<p>And they ordered their pints of beer and bottles of sherry<br \/>\nTo carry them over the hills so merry,<br \/>\nWhen Jones&#8217;s ale was new, my boys, when Jones&#8217;s ale was new.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New &#8211; Click To Play This marks the 200th song in the Folk Den! &#8220;When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New&#8221; is a popular drinking song from Olde England, circa 1594. The first printed version was entered at Stationer&#8217;s Register in 1595, &#8220;a ballet intituled Jone&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Jones&#8217;s Ale Was New&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}