Rutterkin (Skelton, set by P. Warlock) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Rutterkin is come unto our town
 In a cloak without coat or gown
 save ragged hood to cover his crown
 Like a Rutterkin
 Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!

 Rutterkin can speak no English,
 His tongue runneth all on butter'd fish,
 Besmear'd with grease about his dish,
 Like a Rutterkin
 Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!

 Rutterkin shall bring you all good luck,
 A stoup of beer up at a pluck
 Till his brain be as wise as a duck,
 Like a Rutterkin
 Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!

 When Rutterkin from board shall rise,
 He will piss a gallon pot full at twice,
 And the overplus under the table of the new guise,
 Like a Rutterkin
 Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!

Authorship

John Skelton (1460-1529)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym]

Peterisms: first set

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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