Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)

Subject: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: GUEST,Alan Ackerman
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 01:27 AM

Looking for words to Gude Claret.

Track: Gude Claret
Artist: Jock Tamson's Bairns
CD: May You Never Lack a Scone
Label: Greentrax CDtrax 206

Listed as "Traditional".
Heard on Archie Fisher, Travelling Folk, 15 / 17 FEBRUARY, 2007.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: GUEST,Alan Ackerman
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:16 AM

I found one reference that said it was by Allan Ramsey, PD. (I assume that is Public Domain, i.e. no longer in copyright.)

I found:

Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 – January 7, 1758), Scottish poet.

He published:

The Tea-Table Miscellany is "A Collection of Choice Songs Scots and English," containing some of Ramsay's own, some by his friends, several well-known ballads and songs, and some Caroline verse.

No luck in finding the lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:13 AM

Could this be a variation of "Good Peanuts?"

Subject: Lyr Add: GUDE CLARET (Allan Ramsay)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 08:07 PM

This seems to be the original poem. It is printed without a title in "Songs of the Vine with a Medley for Maltworms" selected and edited by William G. Hutchison, 1904, which can be seen with Google Book Search. At least it's by Allan Ramsay and it mentions "gude claret."

Look up to Pentland's tow'ring taps
Buried beneath big wreaths o' snaw,
O'er ilka cleugh, ilk scaur and slap,
As high as ony Roman wa'.

Driving their ba's frae whins or tee,
There's no nae gowfer to be seen,
Nor dousser fouk, wysing a-jee
The byast bouls on Tamson's green.

Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
And beek the house baith butt and ben,
That mutchkin stoup it hauds but dribs,
Then let's get in the tappit hen!

Gude claret best keeps out the cauld,
And drives awa' the winter soon;
It makes a man baith gash and bauld,
And heaves his saul ayont the moon.

Leave to the gods your ilka care,
If that they think us worth their while,
They can a rowth o' blessings spare,
Which will our fashious fears beguile.

For what they hae a mind to do,
That will they do, should we gang wud;
If they command the storms to blaw,
Then upo' sight the hailstanes thud.

But soon as ere they cry, Be quiet,
The blattering winds daur nae mair move,
But cour into their caves, and wait
The high command o' supreme Jove.

Let neist day come as it thinks fit,
The present minute's only ours;
On pleasure let's employ our wit,
And laugh at fortune's feckless pow'rs.

ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

Subject: Lyr Add: GUDE CLARET (from Jock Tamson's Bairns)
From: Lucius
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 11:57 AM

That's the one that Jock Tamson's Bairns did, though they mixed the verses and made a chorus. Let's see if I can post it the way that the Bairns recorded it. Maybe someone can translate it?

Gude claret best keeps out the cauld,
And drives awa' the winter soon;
It makes a man baith gash and bauld,
And heaves his saul ayont the moon.
    Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
    And beek the house baith butt and ben,
    That mutchkin stoup it hauds but dribs,
    Then let's get in the tappit hen!

Leave to the gods your ilka care,
If that they think us worth their while,
They can a rowth o' blessings spare,
Which will our fashious fears beguile.
    Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
    And beek the house baith butt and ben,
    That mutchkin stoup it hauds but dribs,
    Then let's get in the tappit hen!

Let neist day come as it thinks fit,
The present minute's only ours;
On pleasure let's employ our wit,
And laugh at fortune's feckless pow'rs.
    Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
    And beek the house baith butt and ben,
    That mutchkin stoup it hauds but dribs,
    Then let's get in the tappit hen!

Gude claret best keeps out the cauld,
And drives awa' the winter soon;
It makes a man baith gash and bauld,
And heaves his saul ayont the moon.
    Then fling on coals, and ripe the ribs,
    And beek the house baith butt and ben,
    That mutchkin stoup it hauds but dribs,
    Then let's get in the tappit hen!

HTML formatting added. I don't know why, but when I looked at your source code, I saw "
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: Lucius
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 01:28 PM

Dang, what a mess! This is why I don't post here often. I have the "automatic linebreaks" option checked, but I just can't get my posts to recognize a hard return. I quit.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE GLASS LIKE THE GLOBE SHALL GO ROUND
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Feb 07 - 05:32 PM

More good claret-

Lyr. Add: THE GLASS, LIKE THE GLOBE, SHALL GO ROUND
Holcroft

The glass, like the globe, shall go round,
While friends and good claret abound;
In spite of your grave preaching thinker,
A good fellow means a good drinker;
When past three o'clock shall resound,
Should any one, prudently, sober be found,
We'll give him the nickname of skinker.

Old Noah, when lodged in his barge,
Beheld himself floating at large,
And viewed the wide waters around him,
Yet hated that water should bound him;
Men thought him shut up in the dark,
Lord, sir, if you had but stepped into the ark,
You, floating in claret, had found him.

The juices of the grape, all agree,
Rejoices the jovial and free;
Then, Bacchus, thou hero of fable,
We'll tope with thee while we are able,
For thou canst our sorrows dissolve,
And, therefore, thy honours shall nightly devolve
On the first that falls under the table.

"The Universal Songster; or, Museum of Mirth:... vol. III, p. 248, Jones and Co., 1828.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: GUEST,Alan Ackerman
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 02:36 AM

Thanks! The one with the chorus is the one I heard. I wish I could translate, but I am no expert on Scottish dialect. I understand only some of it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Feb 07 - 11:00 AM

The measures
mutchkin stoup- a pint container, it holds but little
tappit hen- a quart size container

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Gude Claret (Traditional)
From: Lucius
Date: 01 Mar 07 - 07:42 AM

Thanks Q, I found a halfway-decent translation here, great tune.