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Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Jun-04 - 04:19 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Come All Ye Worthy Christian Men
Subject: ADD: Come All Ye Worthy Christian Men
There's also this PDF document: http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/christians.PDF.

Come All Ye Worthy Christian Men

Come all ye worthy Christians, that dwell within this land
Don't spend your time in rioting, recollect you are but a man
Be watchful of your latter end, be ready when you're called
There is many changes in this world, some rise and some do fall

See Job he was a patient man, and a rich man in the past
And when he was brought to poverty, his sorrow did increase
He bore it all most patiently, no sin did he repine
He always trusted in the Lord, and soon got rich again

Come all you worthy Christians, that are so very poor
Remember how poor Lazarus, lay at the rich man's door
A begging for the crumbs of bread, which from his table fell
The scripture now informs us all, in Heaven he doth dwell

So poor I am contented, no riches do I crave
For all things are but vanity, on this side of the grave
There is many roll in riches, their glasses will run out
No riches we brought into this world, and none can carry out

The time it then will come when parted we must be
The only difference then remains to joy or misery
We all must give a strict account, the great as well as small
So recollect my people, one God will judge us all

This song was collected by Baring-Gould from John Dingle of Coryton on the 12th August 1904. He was accompanied on this occasion by Cecil Sharp who, it is recorded in the manuscript, noted down the tune. (Volume 2 page 61 No 144c)

Source: Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England, http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/