Upstairs, Downstairs CD

You don't have to be a scullery maid or butler to enjoy Music from the Servants' Hall. Lively tunes, witty lyrics and traditional instruments lift your spirits today, just as they cheered hearts downstairs in the great houses of yesteryear. Nineteen songs and medleys include "Coortin' in the Kitchen," "Jenny Pluck Pears" and "Drink Old England Dry."

1 Coortin' in the kitchen
Ian Giles, Jon Boden, John Spiers, Joey Oliver
2 The Lincolnshire Poacher
Benji Kirkpatrick and Dr Faustus
3 Pied du cheval
Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Jon Banks
4 Dou way Robin
Serendipity
5 Ah Robin, gentle Robin
Serendipity
6 Jenny pluck pears
The Broadside Band
7 Can she excuse (The Earl of Essex Galliard)
The Broadside Band
8 Millisons Jegge
The Broadside Band
9 Trolly lolly
Sara Stowe, Matthew Spring, Jon Banks
10 The moreen (the minstrel boy)
Jon Banks
11 Roses in bloom
The Oxford Girls' Choir
12 My neat auburn maid
Sarah Hill
13 Drink old England dry
Ian Giles, John Spiers
14 Whisky is the life of man
Graham Metcalfe, Ian Giles, John Spiers, Jon Boden
15 Portsmouth/Bonny Kate
John Spiers, Jon Boden
16 The green fields of Americay
Marguerite Hutchinson, Jon Boden, John Spiers
17 Tripping upstairs/The old favourite/Going to the well for water
Joey Oliver, John Spiers, Jon Boden, Ian Giles
18 The maid behind the bar/The earl's chair/The silver spear
Joey Oliver, John Spiers, Jon Boden, Ian Giles
19 Trooper and maid
Benji Kirkpatrick, Paul Sartin