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Thread #16493   Message #1330600
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
17-Nov-04 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: What Sweeter Music... (Robert Herrick)
Subject: Lyr Add: COME BRING WITH A NOISE (Christmas carol)
Looking for a midi to "Come Bring With a Noise." Only found sheet music for sale so far, and many copies of the lyrics.
Couldn't find lyrics in Mudcat, just a link.

Lyr. Add: COME BRING WITH A NOISE

Come bring with a noise,
My merry, merry boys,
The Christmas log to the firing;
While my good dame she
Bids ye all be free,
And drink to your heart's desiring.

With the last year's brand
Light the new block, and,
For good success in his spending,
On your psalteries play
That sweet luck may
Comee while the log is a *teending.

Drink now the strong beer,
Cut the white loaf here,
The while the meat is shredding;
For the rare mince pie,
And the plums stand by,
To fill the paste that's a kneading.

* burning. A fragment of this song was used by Washington Irving in one of his "Sketches."