minstrel: bawdy songs

[Greg Lindahl]

> It's not English, but when I was doing my honours (early music/MH German), I 
> worked on a piece called Ain Yetterin, which is fairly bawdy and has a 
> decent tune.

There are a bunch of non-English bawdy tunes, many of which are a bit
more explicitly naughty than the pre-1600 English ones. They're fun to
sing in their original language on formal occasions; you can find out
who the native speakers are, assuming your pronunciation and diction
are good enough.

-- Gregory Blount

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