The (?) Mashers
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Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1956.135
Original Tape ID
Summary
Fragments of a music hall-era song in which two 'mashers' (young and fashionable men of the late Victorian era) brag about their antics.
Item Notes
1 verse of 8 lines with chorus of 4 lines.
This song would appear to have developed from the music hall into a wide spread series of oral adaptations; a great many localised variants exist, e.g. 'The Ashton Mashers', with others situated in Rochdale, Oldham, Fleetwood, Quarry Bank, Preston, and so on. A song named 'The Brothers Malone' may have been the original song, and is certainly related.
See:
'Everyman's Book of British Ballads' (R. Palmer, 1980) pp. 238-239
Recording Location
County - Roxburghshire
Parish - Melrose
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair