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Thread #92215   Message #1760029
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
14-Jun-06 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: song to the tune 'Jamaica'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: song to the tune 'Jamaica'
That would be Richard Climsell's 'The Jovial Broom-man' (Roxburghe Ballads, I, 498-503), "To the tune of Slow Men of London" (in this case an alternative name for Jamaica).

There is a shortened text with modernised spelling at  http://www.englishcivilwar.com/songs/jollybrewman.htm