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Thread #88774 Message #3200749
Posted By: Joe Offer
03-Aug-11 - 04:06 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Let Union Be In All Our Hearts - Grange?
Subject: ADD Version: Come My Lads, Let Us Be Jolly
Here's a transcription from a printed copy, also in the Sabine Baring-Gould manuscripts at Take Six.
No. 76. COME MY LADS, LET US BE JOLLY.
Come my lads let us be jolly!
Drive away dull melancholy
For to grieve it is a folly,
When we're met together.
Come, let's live and well agree
Always shun bad company,
Why should we not merry merry be,
When we're met together.
CHORUS: Come my lads let us be jolly, &c.
Here's the bottle, as it passes,
Do not fail to fill your glasses,
water-drinkers are dull asses,
When we're met together.
Milk is meet for infancy,
Ladies like to sip Bohea,
Not such stuff for you and me
When we're met together.
CHORUS: Come my lads let us be jolly, &c.
Solomon a wise man hoary
Told us quite another story.
In our drink we'll chirp and glory,
When we're met together.
Merrily, but yet decorous,
Praising all good drinks before us,
When we're met together.
CHORUS: Come my lads let us be jolly, &c.
Source: Songs and Ballads of the West, Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
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