200. Oh, No, John ( Traditional)

This song, also known, in different variations, as No Sir No, The Spanish Merchant s Daughter, The Dumb Lady, and No, No, Not I seems to have originated as a bawdy ballad in the seventeenth century. It was published as Consent at Last in Thomas D Urfey s Wit and Mirth or Pills to Purge Melancholy in 1700. The bowdlerised version I sing was collected by Cecil Sharpe. It is performed here with the help of my young friend from Brunei, one of four videos I made with her when she and her mother came to br, br,