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Jim Dixon Lyr Add: Here's a Health unto Her Majesty (23) Lyr Add: GLEE (Here's a health unto Her Majesty) 17 Nov 18


From The Musical Times, Vol. 6, No. 126, London: June 15, 1854, page 120:

Some weeks ago, several members of the establishment of her Majesty's Printers gave a concert to their fellow-workmen, concluding with Saville's "Here's a health unto Her Majesty" (see Musical Times, No. 69), to which were added two original stanzas, by J. S. Durtnall. We subjoin them for those who may wish similarly to use them:—

GLEE.
Saville, 1600.

[The first verse adapted from the old song, the second and third supplied.]

Here's a health unto Her Majesty,
  With a fal, lal, lal, lal, la. la, la,
Confusion to her enemies;
  With a fal, &c.
And he that will not pledge her health,
I wish him neither wit nor wealth,
Nor yet a rope to hang himself.
  With a fal, &c.

Here's a health unto her family,
  With a fal, &c.
Long may they live and happy be;
  With a fal, &c.
And he that won't uphold this wish,
May he have neither flesh nor fish,
His fortune be an empty dish.
  With a fal, &c.

Here's a health unto our native land,
  With a fal, &c.
Long free and happy may it stand;
  With a fal, &c.
And he who joins not fellowship,
Throughout the country let him skip,
"In every honest hand the whip."
  With a fal, &c.


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