Greetings:
You might want to check out "Perrie, Merrie, Dixi, Domini" in Linscotts Folk Songs of Old New England. It's a naive version of "The Riddle Song" with a corrupted Latin refrain line:
I had four brothers over the sea, Perrie, Merrie, Dixi, Domini. They each sent a present unto me. Petrum, partrum, paradisi tempore, Perrie, merrie, dixi, domini.
It goes on with such lines as "The first sent a cherry that had no stone. The second sent a chicken that had no bone." And so forth. Maybe Joe Offer, or one of the more experienced users of Digitrad, can help locate it here. I'm a novice who can only visit one area of the site at a time!
There's also a neat macaronic song in Chapell (is the book titled Popular Music of Olden Time?) called "We Be Soldiers Three." It alternates lines between English and French. My wife and I sing it, but I can't write the French, I'm afraid. I'm a high-school drop-out, still playing catch-up.(:-)) But it, too, may be in the Digitrad data base.
Sandy (Folk-Legacy's resident folk fogey)
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