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Lyr Add: The Godly Ballad of John Careless

chico 05 Jul 05 - 03:43 AM
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Subject: Lyr Add: The Godly Ballad of John Careless
From: chico
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 03:43 AM

First verse is referred to in Shakespeare's Hamlet. See "Yf care do cawse men crye" in this forum.


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AIR -- 'Yf care do cawse men crye'

    F          Bb    F                   Eb    Bb      C
Why let the strucken Deere go weepe, the Hart vngalled play:
    Bb                C7?   F       (Bb)       Dm         C7    F
For some must watch, while some must sleepe; So runnes the world away.

Some men for sudden joy do weep and some in sorrow sing;
When as they are in danger deep to put away mourning.

Between them both I will begin, being in joy and pain;
With sighing to lament my sin and yet rejoice again.

The east, the bird, the fish the fowl, their maker do obey;
But I which am a living soul am far more worse than they.


"Would not this Sir, and a Forrest of Feathers, if the rest of my Fortunes turne Turke with me; with two Prouinciall Roses on my rac'd Shooes, get me a Fellowship in a crie of Players sir." (Hamlet)


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