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Thread #23892   Message #1727445
Posted By: Artful Codger
25-Apr-06 - 08:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When Celia was Learning
Subject: Lyr Add: TOM THE TAYLOR (Henry Purcell)
The other catch mentioned from the City Waites album they call "Tom making a mantle", but is in fact:

TOM THE TAYLOR
by Henry Purcell

Tom making a Manteau for a lass of pleasure
Pull'd out, pull'd out, pull'd out
His long, his long and lawful measure.

But quickly found tho' woundily streight lac'd Sir
nine Inches, nine Inches, nine Inches,
nine Inches wou'd not half surround her wast Sir:

Three Inches more, at lenght brisk Tom advances
yet all, yet all too short, yet all, all, all too short, all too short,
yet all too short, all too short to reach her swinging Hances.


And the author of "Celia &c." is John Isum (s, not f.)