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Thread #28827   Message #360818
Posted By: John in Brisbane
20-Dec-00 - 11:08 PM
Thread Name: lyr/tune ADD: Harvest Home (Another)
Subject: LYR/TUNE ADD: Harvest Home (Another)
No this is not the well known hornpipe, but another song altogether. There has been at least one other set of lyrics contributed here in the past. I'll be posting the MIDI score to MMario.

Regards, John

HARVEST HOME

Our oats they are hoed, and our barley's reaped,
Our hay it is mowed, and our hovels heaped.
Come, boys, come, come, boys, come,
And merrily roar out Harvest Home!
Chorus Harvest Home! Harvest Home!
We'll merrily roar out Harvest Home!

We've cheated the parson, we'll cheat him again,
For why should the blockhead have one in ten?
One in ten; one in ten;
For why should the blockhead have one in ten?
Chorus One in ten, etc.

For preaching while dinner is cold and hot,
And pudding and dumpling are burnt to the pot?
Burnt to pot, burnt to pot,
And pudding and dumpling are burnt to the pot?
Chorus Burnt to pot, etc.

We'll drink off our liquor while we can stand,
And hey for the honour of Old England!
Old England, Old England;
And hey for the honour of Old England!
Chorus Old England, etc.

From the opera King Arthur, 1691, by Henry Purcell and John Dryden. This version of the words is from V. Sandys' Festive Songs, 1856.