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Thread #120853   Message #2632626
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-May-09 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Cast Away Care
Subject: ADD: Cast Away Care
Then there's this one:
from http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=47160

The sheet music is available through JSTOR. Maybe somebody with JSTOR access will transcribe the whole song for you.





Then there's

NOTES AND QUERIES:
of Intercommunication
FOR
LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC.

When found, make a note of," CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

SEVENTH SERIES. VOLUME FIRST.
JANUARY JUNE 1886.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED AT THE
OFFICE, 22, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE, E.G.
BY JOHN C. FRANCIS.

Index Supplement to the Note and Queries, with No. 30, July 24, 1886.

"HANG SORROW."
(7 th S. i. 8.)

After a long silence, caused by other occupations,
and not by any means through indifference to our
favourite * N. & Q.,' I am happy to furnish the
materials required by its esteemed correspondent,
my own faithful friend, MR. C. A. WARD. I pro-
mise to be more frequent in communications on
our old songs and ballads for the future. In his
inquiry MR. WARD mixes two distinct catches or
songs ; of these the earlier (1652) is " Hang sor-
row, let 'a cast away care," to which the music was
composed by William Lawes, and " published by
John Hilton : printed for John Benson and John
Playford, and to be sould in St. Dunstan'd Church-
yard, and in the Inner Temple neare the Church
doore, 1652." It reappeared in ' Windsor Drollery/
1672, with a few verbal alterations, here noted.
Of the other song, containing the line "The
parish is bound to find us," I know no earlier
printed copy than one in the excessively rare 1671
edition of ' The New Academy of Complement?,'
here given.

1. From J. Hilton's 'Catch that Catch Can,'
1652 (music by William Lawes):

Hang Sorrow and cast away Care,
and let us drink up our Sack ;
They say 'tis good to cherish the blood,*
and for to strengthen the back.
'Tis wine that makes the thoughts aspire,
and fills the body with heat ;
Besides 'tis good, if well understood,
to fit a man for the feat :
Then call and drink up all,
The Drawer is ready to fill,
A Pox of care, of what need we to spare
my father has made his will.

2. Song 276 :
Hang fear, cast away care,
The parish is bound to find us,
Thou and I and all must die,
And leave this world behinde us.
The Bells shall ring, the Clerk shall sing,
And the good old wife shall winde us,
And John shall lay our bones in clay
Where the Devil ne'er shall find us.

The New Academy of Complements,' 1671.
One version is in Playford's ' Musical . Com-
panion,' 1673. There is also a Roxburghe ballad
beginning similarly, but quite distinct from these
two songs. It is entitled, "Joy and Sorrow mixt
together. To the tune of, Such a Rogue should
be hang'd." Which is the same tune as ' Old Sir
Simon the King.' Here is the first of the fourteen
stanzas for comparison. The ballad is preserved
in the Roxburghe Collection (vol. i. fol. 170), and
has been reprinted in the Ballad Society's pub-
lication, vol. i. p. 509 :

Hang sorrow, let 's cast away care,
for now I do mean to be merry,
We'll drink some good Ale and strong Beere,
With sugar, and clarret, and sherry.
Now I'll have a wife of mine own,
I shall have no need to borrow;
I would have it for to be known
that I shall be married to-morrow.
(Burden:) Here 's a health to my Bride that shall be,
Come pledge it you boon merry blades :
The day I much long for to see,
We will be as merry as the Maides, &c.

This ballad was written and signed by Richard
Climsell, and was printed for John Wright the
younger, dwelling in the Old Bayley.

J. W. EBSWORTH.

Molash Vicarage, by Ashford, Kent.
And from another place in the same document:

"HANG SORROW." There was a song sung publicly in alehouses and other places about 1764, in connexion with the poor law enactments of George III.'s reign, which ran thus:

I'm betting this is the song you're seeking, because it has a choral arrangement. As I said above, the choral arrangement is available at JSTOR - many libraries have access to JSTOR.

This Google Search (click) will lead you to copies you can purchase.
-Joe-