{"id":3000,"date":"2024-12-02T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/?page_id=3000"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:57:15","slug":"eight-songs-from-haygarth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine poems and songs from Haygarth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3000?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The following are taken from the preface to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/my-library-of-early-cricket\/#Lillywhites_Cricket_Scores_and_Biographies_%E2%80%93_Arthur_Haygarth_1862\">Lillywhite\u2019s Cricket Scores and Biographies by Arthur Haygarth (1862)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#Death_and_the_cricketer\" >Death and the cricketer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#The_Cricketer\" >The Cricketer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#The_Game_of_Life_or_Death_Among_the_Cricketers\" >The Game of Life; or, Death Among the Cricketers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#The_Game_of_Cricket_An_Exercise_at_Merchant_Taylors_School\" >The Game of Cricket. An Exercise at Merchant Taylor&#8217;s School<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#Cricket_Song\" >Cricket Song<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#Floors_Castle_Cricketers_Song\" >Floors Castle Cricketers&#8217; Song<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#1743_match\" >1743 match<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#The_Fine_Old_English_Cricketer\" >The Fine Old English Cricketer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/eight-songs-from-haygarth\/#Recitation_King_Time_a_Cricketer\" >Recitation. King Time, a Cricketer<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Death_and_the_cricketer\"><\/span>Death and the cricketer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1-1024x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1-1024x213.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1-768x160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1-1536x319.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1-2048x426.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Cricketer\"><\/span>The Cricketer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2248\" height=\"817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-1024x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-1024x372.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-768x279.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-1536x558.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2-2048x744.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2248px) 100vw, 2248px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Game_of_Life_or_Death_Among_the_Cricketers\"><\/span>The Game of Life; or, Death Among the Cricketers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-400x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-400x1024.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-768x1965.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-600x1536.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-800x2048.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/3-scaled.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Game_of_Cricket_An_Exercise_at_Merchant_Taylors_School\"><\/span>The Game of Cricket. An Exercise at Merchant Taylor&#8217;s School<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-638x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-638x1024.jpg 638w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-768x1233.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-957x1536.jpg 957w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-1275x2048.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4-scaled.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cricket_Song\"><\/span>Cricket Song <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5-843x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5-843x1024.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5-1265x1536.jpg 1265w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5-1686x2048.jpg 1686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Floors_Castle_Cricketers_Song\"><\/span>Floors Castle Cricketers&#8217; Song<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-768x1367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-863x1536.jpg 863w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-1151x2048.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.1-scaled.jpg 1438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am afraid I have no familiarity with the tune <em>Dolly Dobbs<\/em>, but this lyric does work quite well with that of <em>My Old Man&#8217;s a Dustman<\/em>, made famous by the celebrated 1950s skiffle singer, Mr. Lonnie Donegan. The chorus is particularly interesting, a kind of precursor to many of the Eurovision Song Contest entrants, especially that old favourite, <em>boom-bang-a-la-di-dah-tish-tash-tosh<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1743_match\"><\/span>1743 match<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.2-1024x344.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.2-1024x344.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.2-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.2-768x258.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.2-1536x516.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6.2-2048x688.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Fine_Old_English_Cricketer\"><\/span>The Fine Old English Cricketer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-768x1076.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-1096x1536.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-1462x2048.jpg 1462w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7-scaled.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recitation_King_Time_a_Cricketer\"><\/span>Recitation. King Time, a Cricketer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-565x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-565x1024.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-768x1392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-848x1536.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-1130x2048.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/8-scaled.jpg 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following are taken from the preface to Lillywhite\u2019s Cricket Scores and Biographies by Arthur Haygarth (1862). Death and the cricketer The Cricketer The Game of Life; or, Death Among the Cricketers The Game of Cricket. An Exercise at Merchant Taylor&#8217;s School Cricket Song Floors Castle Cricketers&#8217; Song I am afraid I have no familiarity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3000","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PdOpLv-Mo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3000\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}