03 Jul 05 - 04:08 PM (#1514618)
Subject: Lyr Add: A-swearing we will go (1684)
From: chico
Does anyone know more about this "Presbyterian" plot? Please respond.
The Swearers Chorus to the first Presbyterian Plot [AIR -- 'A-begging I will go'; or, 'The Jovial Beggar']
F Bb F C7
There was a monstrous doctor, this doctor had no peer,
Dm (Gm) C7 F
A rogue from his cradle, and bred to lie and swear
(C7) Gm C7 F (C7)
And a Swearing we will go, will go, will go,
(Bb) Gm C7 F (C7)
And a swearing we will go
A bag for my pilgrims another for Black Bills
Ten thousand blank commissions to move as many hills
A bag for my sallery, from every fool suborns
Three brawny bums to follow me, and bugger them by turns
And a Bugg'ring we will go, &c
A bag for my plunder, Sir William's on the scent
The Pole did ne'r so thunder in the Grand Vizier's Tent
And a plundering we will go, &c
A bag for our pistols and consecrated knives
And one for Tormetillio's, T'fright fools out of their lives
And a plotting we will go, &c
A bag for the parson, another for Don John
Though I swore like a whoreson, yet still I would swear on
And a swearing we will go, &c
Through four and twenty keyholes, I sally'd like a witch
And through as many Brick walls, I'll swear I went through-stitch
To Lambeth we will go, where we irst made the plot
While Prance and I can swear and lie, they all shall go to pot
And a plotting we will go, &c
Then we'l to Godrey go, and find him kil'd o'th' spot
And swear the Papists did it, to make a popish plot
And a murd'ring we will go, &c
A gown I have for shew, amonst the clergy grave
And, when I please, a cloak, to hide the double Knave
And a plotting we will go, &c
I had a pretty knack, to wheedle, swear and lye
By the Rebellious Rabble, how much admir'd was I
In fair London town, I live and pay no rent,
The brethren they provide for me, and I am well content
Of all occupations the Swearer is most blest
For when he swears most falsly, he's always paid th ebest
I fear no plot against me, although the whigs rebel
Then who would be honest, since such rogues far so well
And a plotting, &c
[Impris: Print by N.Thompson at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1684. Also included it in 'A Choice Collection of
120 Loyal Songs' (1684)]
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