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At the Cross

[ Roud 8131 ; trad.]

Elizabeth Stewart, Alison McMorland: Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

Will Noble sang At the Cross in a recording made by John Howson at Oxspring, Yorkshire in 1992. It was released in the same year on his Veteran Tapes cassette of South-West Yorkshire songs, In That Beautiful Dale, and was included in 2006 on the Veteran anthology of English traditional folk singers, It Was on a Market Day—One, on which Mike Yates noted:

Will learnt this parody of the Sankey and Moody hymn from his father. Apparently, George Fradley, who can also be heard on this CD, sang an additional verse of the parody.

Lyrics

Will Noble sings At the Cross

At the cross, at the cross, I picked up a dross
And I threw it at an old woman’s door.
Th’old woman came out and she give me such a clout
That I said I wouldn’t do it any more.