My poor father broke his leg,
And so it fell a chancing.
Just over the border, in Lancashire, the version runs—
My new shoon, they are so good,
I could dance Morris if I would;
And if hat and sark be drest
I will dance Morris with the rest.
Three ballads were very popular, viz. “The Miller of the Dee,” “The Spanish Lady” (who is supposed to have fallen in love with the Cheshire knight Sir Uryan Leigh), and “The Cheshire Cheese.”
CHURCHES
The old parish account-books show that much more was spent on music in old times than in the present day, e.g. Bunbury:—