There is a house in Cruxtonshire

[Barbaria1]

There is a house in Cruxtonshire
That has a dungeon keep
And it's been the ruin of many a parlor maid
And God, I know I'm one

Lord Wragg is the master
And runs a very tight ship
Break a crystal goblet and it’s
Down to the dungeon keep

Now what the master most admires
Is a tight little ass to cane
And the only time he's satisfied
Is delivering forty strokes

[Organ Solo]

Oh mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend their lives in sin and misery
In that House In Cruxtonshire

Now he’s got me at the four poster
Spreadeagled on the bed
To avoid being sacked and sent away
I’ll do anything he says

Well, there is a house in Cruxtonshire
Owned by the family Wragg
And it's been the ruin of many a parlor maid
And God, I know I'm one

Barbaria, October 2022

(Apologies to Burdon and The Animals)

 

[Wragg]

And Old Lord Wragg, the master
Just made a brand new rule
That maids who write of Cruxton House
Will feel his anger, cruel!

 

[windar]

(Apologies to Clapton and The Animals)

That's Eric Burdon and the Animals. He probably won't be insulted for being confused with Clapton though...

But the song is an old folk song. Alan Lomax, who recorded the music of Appalachia during the Depression found many versions in the hills of Kentucky. It was recorded by Woody Guthrie in the 1940s and by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. But the Animals version was certainly the most commercially successful and it's a good one.

 

[Barbaria1]

Ahh, yes .. Burdon not Clapton. Thanks for the correction. And yes … many earler versions, but I’ve always liked the Animal’s rendition.

 

[LittleSiss]

So sad that the AC have a sorry memory of the simple.
A Turtle can win a race but the rabbit stays a field of the Richter!

 

[Loxuru]

A contrast with the works of Haydn, Händel, Mozart and other chamber music, regularly played in the salons and library of Cruxton Abbey for Lord Wragg and his esteemed guests!

Nice work, Barb!

 

[Barbaria1]

A contrast with the works of Haydn, Händel, Mozart and other chamber music, regularly played in the salons and library of Cruxton Abbey for Lord Wragg and his esteemed guests!

Nice work, Barb!

Imagine being caned to the music of those three blokes! Shows that a poor little parlor maid can aspire to being punished in high style.

 

[Loxuru]

Imagine being caned to the music of those three blokes! Shows that a poor little parlor maid can aspire to being punished in high style.

Of course, the rhytm of the caning strokes must be in harmony with the beat of the music.

Just hope, Lord Wragg prefers 'allegro' over 'andante' or 'presto'!

 

[Barbaria1]

Of course, the rhytm of the caning strokes must be in harmony with the beat of the music.

Just hope, Lord Wragg prefers 'allegro' over 'andante' or 'presto'!

They say Lord Wragg is most fond of caning errant parlor maids to certain passages of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

 

[Loxuru]

They say Lord Wragg is most fond of caning errant parlor maids to certain passages of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.

There even could be even parts for caning errant parlor maids in a Cruxton Abbey style adaptation of Mozart's 'The Abduction from the Seraglio'!

 

[montycrusto]

Surely Beethoven’s Erotica would be the perfect musical choice!

 

[Eulalia]

In Ariel Dorfmann's play (later film) 'Death and the Maiden', the woman recalls being tortured to the accompaniment of Schubert's quartet ...

 

[montycrusto]

In Ariel Dorfmann's play (later film) 'Death and the Maiden', the woman recalls being tortured to the accompaniment of Schubert's quartet ...

Are you sure it wasn’t called “Deafen The Maiden”?