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Dives and Lazarus (ballad)

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275:, London, in 1892 reportedly recognised the tune Hipkins knew as belonging to a song about the Lazarus parable. Broadwood matched a typical version of the lyrics to "Dives and Lazarus" with this tune attested by Hipkins and the lady from Westminster, stating that "they suit it so well that there is a great probability of their having at one time been associated together". Broadwood then published the Hipkins tune with those lyrics in 227:
This is the tune of many songs. If the reader should meet any half-a-dozen men perambulating the streets of London together, and singing, the probabilities are great that they sing to this tune. Sometimes the men are dressed like sailors ; at other times they look like workmen out of employment.
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The rich man Dives or Diverus makes a feast. The poor man Lazarus comes to Dives' door and repeatedly begs 'brother Dives' to give him something to eat and drink. Dives answers that he is not the brother of Lazarus, denies Lazarus food and drink, and sends his servants to whip him and his dogs to
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As both men die, angels carry Lazarus to heaven, and serpents drag Dives to hell. In one version Dives asks Lazarus (who is apparently unable to help him) for a drop of water, and complains about his eternal punishment.
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into the early nineteenth century, suggesting that it had become virtually extinct by the turn of the nineteenth century.
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bite him. However, the servants are unable to whip Lazarus, and the dogs "lick his sores away" instead of biting him.
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in 1893 and used in other traditional songs, inspired many notable works and appeared in several pieces composed by
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The story contains some miraculous elements, and has its emphasis slightly changed from the more traditionally
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Traditional folk songs which have been known to use the "Dives and Lazarus" tune include the English songs "
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had known the tune for years and called it "Lazarus", but did not know the lyrics. An elderly woman in
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by Alexander Stuart, a version of the tune is associated with the song "Gilderoy" (Roud 1486).
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The tune is used in numerous other non-traditional musical works in various regions:
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song "The Fighting 69th", and the song "The Year Turns Round Again" featured in
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Vaughan Williams claimed to have found the tune himself in the village of
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The tune has been used various times for different hymns, including the
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nevertheless collected a handful of versions in the 1910s and 20s in
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hymn "When Jesus Walked Upon This Earth" in the Quaker songbook
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The Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany
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noted in 1893 that the song had a strong presence in
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The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood
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Index

Child ballad
477
Roud Folk Song Index
Christmas carol
rich man and Lazarus
Luke 16:19–16:31
Lucy Broadwood
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Francis James Child
Lucy Broadwood
Worcestershire
Warwickshire
Cecil Sharp
Herefordshire
Shropshire
Peter Kennedy
Bromsberrow Heath
Gloucestershire
British Library Sound Archive
Jewish
Christian
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Allan Ramsay
William Chappell
Kilburn
The Two Brothers
The Unquiet Grave
The Thresher
Maria Marten
Gwynedd

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