The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54664   Message #877981
Posted By: Crane Driver
29-Jan-03 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Netherlands Leaguer? / Holland's Leaguer
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Netherlands Leager ??
Sorry, but it's not as easy to transcribe the Songwainers as you might think - all those harmonies, plus a drum, plus what I assume are obsolete expressions which I can't even guess at. The first verse goes:

You who desire news, list to my story,
Some it will cause to muse, some will be sorry;
From every quarter have the gallants resorted,
To Holland's Leaguer, that fame hath reported.

(Chorus)
Yes it is certain, in truth it is spoken,
{Metalmans?} Leaguer just lately is broken.

Can't make any sense of the first word of line 2 in the chorus, but it's definitely not Holland, or Netherlands.

After that, you're on your own. Sorry.

Andrew