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Thread #50434 Message #764899
Posted By: Amos
13-Aug-02 - 10:36 PM
Thread Name: Part Xa - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
Subject: RE: Part X - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
There was a great concatenation song, recently, by MMmario, and Willa and your humble servant, on this thread. It just sorta sprangup and kept growing!! Here 'tis::
By Your Fruits
MMario, Amos, Willa
By your fruits shall ye be known Whether drupe or pome or berry Be they grain or nuts or melons If they give us food for thought
Ye shall reap as you have sown, Whacky, kind or evil very, And the fruits that you are sellin' Tell us truly what is what!
Gather up the fruit you've grown Wilde oats or Queen Anne's Cherry Borne on branch or stem or vine stew to jelly in your pot
Thus the oldest air is known-- Not Greenfleeves or London Derry The most ancient song in time Is that Jelly Roll, by Gott!
And when winter winds are blowin, And are hearts are full of care we Will recall what you were tellin And be happy with our lot.
Yes the chill that Winter's blown Will not stop our making Merry! We'll not pause for kings or felons, While the Jelly Rolling's hot!
When the laden tables groan We will sip a Christmas sherry In our warm and cosy dwellin And then dance a wild gavotte
What care we for hearts of stone? Those whose tonguesa are barbed and serried? Those who bother us with sellin'? Dance with us, oh, these shall not!
Where the wild Imagines roam, Fueled by grape and love and perry, We abandon cruel melan- Choly for a wilder trot!
And we shall not dance alone. Let no one be sedentary, And the glorious voices swellin' Make this place a hallowed spot
Yea, though hearts be hard as stone, Full of gloom extraordinary, There will be no use rebellin', Pure enjoyment is our plot.
Wandering through the world alone, Finding none to share out story Weary of the world's pell-melling, With our hearts and spirits shot,
Come as though to spirit home, To the end of ponderance hoary, Where the heart alone is telling, Jelly roll, and sweet Gavotte!