Today we&apos;ll look at an early example of true crime and look at the evolution of the ballad &quot;The Gosport Tragedy&quot;  into &quot;Pretty Polly&quot;  and how the changes reflect changes in language. <a href='https://alexdebentley.wixsite.com/bawdyballads'>BawdyBallads</a> <a href='https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31213/xml'>The Gosport Tragedy:EBBA</a> <a href='https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6123,6123'>The Cruel Ship’s Carpenter</a> <a href='https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/4201272/Pretty+Polly'>Pretty Polly Lyrics: The Stanley Brothers</a> <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Polly_(ballad)'>Pretty Polly Wikipedia</a> <a href='https://celadonbooks.com/what-is-true-crime/'>What is True Crime?</a> <a href='https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/original-pronunciation'>Interview on original pronunciation with Ben and David Crystal with Shakespeare Unlimited by Folger Shakespeare Library. </a> <a href='https://www.congocowboys.com/'>The Congo Cowboys</a> <a rel="payment" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bawdyballa1">Support the show</a>

Debauchery Scared... prostitutes, fools, and tricksters oh my!

Welcome all you wonderful people, and thank you so much for checking out Bawdy Ballads, where we will explore all the dirty, sassy, and usually surprising old popular songs, and when I say old… I mean old. Four hundred years old old. And along the way we’ll explore all those things that make life a bit more interesting. There’s trickery infidelity, loving, drinking, and fighting. While we dig deep in these songs, we’ll talk about all kinds of things: archetypes, history, folklore, and how so many of these songs hold vast potential for inspiration of new creations.