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Thread #121538   Message #2659928
Posted By: Jim Dixon
18-Jun-09 - 09:44 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Drink Round Me Boys
Subject: Lyr Add: THE MISTRESS'S GOOD HEALTH
From The Suffolk Garland by James Ford (Ipswich: John Raw, 1818), page 401:


THE MISTRESS'S GOOD HEALTH.

Now harvest is ended, and supper is past,
Here's our mistress's good health, boys, in a full flowing glass.
She is a good woman, she prepar'd us good cheer,
Come, all my brave boys, now, and drink off your beer.
Drink, my boys, drink, till you come unto me,
The longer we sit, my boys, the merrier we shall be.