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Thread #93815   Message #2696131
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Aug-09 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'juice of barley', song from about 1690
Subject: Lyr Add: COLD AND RAW THE NORTH DID BLOW
Thanks to sciencegeek, the words to "A Cup of Old Stingo," from Wm. Chappell, "Popular Music ...," now are posted.
Continuing on p. 309, he gives three verses of Tom D'Urfey's "last new Scotch song," "Cold and raw the north did blow..." Chappell says "the three remaining stanzas would not be very courteously received in Queen Victoria's Tempora mutantur".

Cold and raw the north did blow
Bleak in the morning early
All the trees were hid with snow;
Daggled in winter's yearly:

As I came riding on the slough,
I met a farmer's daughter,
With rosy cheeks and bonny brow,
Good faith, made my mouth water.

Down I veil'd my bonnet low,
Thinking to show my breeding;
She returned a graceful bow-
A village far exceeding.

I ask'd her where she went so soon,
I long'd to begin a parley,
She told me to the next market town
On purpose to sell her barley.