Hoyda, hoyda, jolly rutterkin - Cornysh, William

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"According to Hawkins and others the song is a satire on the drunken Flemings who came to England with Anne of Cleves on her marriage to King Henry VIII, but both Cornysh and Skelton had died over a decade before that event. The OED indicates that "rutterkin" means "a swaggering gallant or bully" and that "hoyda" or "heyday" is "an exclamation of gaiety or amusement"."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 4/2

♬ Voicing → TTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range B-2 – B-4

¶ Language → English

Measures 86

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella

Pages 7

CPDL # 14860

Editor Brian Russell

Posted 2007-09-09

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Cantus

F3 – B-4

Bassus

B-2 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

''Hoyda, hoyda, jolly rutterkin.' ''Hoyda, hoyda, like a rutterkin.'' Rutterkin is come unto our town, In a cloak without coat or gown, Save a ragged hood to cover his crown. Rutterkin can speak no English. His tongue runneth all on buttered fish Besmeared with grease about his dish. Rutterkin shall bring you all good luck, A stoup of beer up at a pluck, Till his brain be as wise as a duck. When Rutterkin from board will rise, He will piss a gallon-pot full at twice, And the over plus under the table of the new guise.