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Thread #93815   Message #2696747
Posted By: Anglo
10-Aug-09 - 02:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'juice of barley', song from about 1690
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'juice of barley', song from about 1
And Ellen Hargis, with The King's Noyse, sings a somewhat shorter version on The King's Delight.

1st verse as above, 2nd verse the weeping widow,

3rd:
'Twill make a miser prodigall and shew himself kind hearted
'Twill make him never grieve at all that from his coyne hath parted
'Twill make a shepheard to mistake his sheepe before a storme
'Twill make a poet to excell; this little Barly-Corne

And 4th verse the serving man.

The new verse probably comes from Roxburghe also.