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30 May 11 - 03:24 PM (#3162755) Subject: Lyr Req: Go Shrewn Graham & Eileen Pratt From: VirginiaTam I once found the lyrics to Women Women (aka Go Shrew or Go Shrewn or Go Shrewd) on line and thought I copied them to my lyrics folder. Sadly not there now. Anyone have these lyrics? |
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30 May 11 - 03:33 PM (#3162762) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Go Shrewn Graham & Eileen Pratt From: VirginiaTam what I have deciphered from listening Some be merry and some be mad Some be busy and some be bad Some be wild and by St Jad chorus Yet all may be no so Though some be loon (or lewd) & some be shrewn (or shrewd) Go shrew wherever you go Some be ?? and some be sad And some be tame understand Some will eat bread from a man's hand chorus Some be angry can't tell wherefore Some be scorning evermore Some will tusk it like a boar chorus Some can wister and some can sigh Some can flatter and some can lie Some can set the mouth all awry chorus Some ?? like an ape Some can neither play nor jape Some of them be awful shape chorus Some of them be true at love Beneath the girdle but not above Some will tarry and some will rove chorus |
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31 May 11 - 11:28 AM (#3163126) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Go Shrewn Graham & Eileen Pratt From: YorkshireYankee Hi VTam, I'm in Graham Pratt's choir (Sheffield Folk Chorale), so when I saw your post(s), I e-mailed him. Here is his response: This is a set of 15th C (?) lyrics set to a tune by our friend, Paul Dickinson. We put it on our first vinyl, "Clear Air of the Day" (Cottage). Paul accompanies us on the LP on this track. Here are the corrected lyrics - changes in brackets:- Some be merry and some be (s)ad Some be busy and some be bad Some be wild and by (St Chad) chorus Yet all (they be not) so (For) some be (lewd) & some be (shrewd) Go shrew wherever you go Some be (wise) and some be (fond) Some be tame (I) understand Some will eat bread from a man's hand chorus Some be (wrath &) can't tell wherefore Some be scorning evermore Some (be tusked) like a boar chorus Some can wister and some can sigh Some can flatter and some can lie Some can set the mouth all awry chorus Some (be snouted) like an ape Some can neither play nor jape Some of them be (of well) shape chorus Some of them be true at love Beneath the girdle but not above Some will tarry and some will rove chorus ------ Can't remember if the order of verses is as we did them - but that doesn't matter... Hope that helps. =============== Cheers, YY (a fellow transplanted Yank; I suppose I could have called myself Michigan Vik(ki)....) ;-) |
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03 Jun 11 - 07:56 AM (#3164665) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Go Shrewn Graham & Eileen Pratt From: Jim Dixon That song might be in The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse, by Edward Lucie-Smith, 1967. At least, that book comes up when I do a search in Google Books using phrases from the song, but Google doesn't let me see the text. |
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08 Jun 11 - 02:14 AM (#3166908) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Go Shrew (Graham & Eileen Pratt) From: VirginiaTam Thank you both. Sorry so late in responding. Been busy like crazy. "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Yorkshire Yankee - Lucky you, getting to sing with the Pratts. They are my folk ideal, perhaps because they are really my first exposure to trad folk. PM me if you want to swap transplant stories. :0) |