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Thread #82651   Message #1514629
Posted By: chico
03-Jul-05 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: A-swearing we will go (1684)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: A-swearing we will go (1684)
Corrected version:


The Swearers Chorus to the first Presbyterian Plot [AIR -- 'A-begging I will go'; or, 'The Jovial Beggar']

       F               Bb          F             C7
There was a monstrous doctor, this doctor had no peer,
   Dm                         C7               F
A rogue from his cradle, and bred to lie and swear

(C7)   Gm      C7      F                (C7)
And a Swearing we will go, will go, will go,
(Bb)    Gm    C7      F (C7)
And a swearing we will go

A bag for my pilgrims another for Black Bills
Ten thousand blank commissions to move as many hills

A bag for my sallery, from every fool suborns
Three brawny bums to follow me, and bugger them by turns
And a Bugg'ring we will go, &c

A bag for my plunder, Sir William's on the scent
The Pole did ne'r so thunder in the Grand Vizier's Tent
And a plundering we will go, &c

A bag for our pistols and consecrated knives
And one for Tormetillio's, T'fright fools out of their lives
And a plotting we will go, &c

A bag for the parson, another for Don John
Though I swore like a whoreson, yet still I would swear on
And a swearing we will go, &c

Through four and twenty keyholes, I sally'd like a witch
And through as many Brick walls, I'll swear I went through-stitch

To Lambeth we will go, where we first made the plot
While Miles and I can swear and lie, they all shall go to pot
And a plotting we will go, &c

Then we'l to Godrey go, and find him kil'd o'th' spot
And swear the Papists did it, to make a popish plot
And a murd'ring we will go, &c

A gown I have for shew, amonst the clergy grave
And, when I please, a cloak, to hide the double Knave
And a plotting we will go, &c

I had a pretty knack, to wheedle, swear and lye
By the Rebellious Rabble, how much admir'd was I

In fair London town, I live and pay no rent,
The brethren they provide for me, and I am well content

Of all occupations the Swearer is most blest
For when he swears most falsly, he's always paid th ebest

I fear no plot against me, although the whigs rebel
Then who would be honest, since such rogues fare so well?
And a plotting, &c

[Impris: Print by N.Thompson at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1684. Also included it in 'A Choice Collection of

120 Loyal Songs' (1684)]