happy? – Jan 6 (Ward and the 'Rainbow')

06 Jan 06 - 10:32 AM (#1642760)
Subject: happy? – Jan 6 (Ward and the 'Rainbow')
From: Abby Sale

The pirate John Ward applies to James I for amnesty. It is refused.

          For he has sent unto our king,
          The sixth of January,     [1608]
          Desiring that he might come in
          With all his company.
  
                  "The Famous Fight Between Captain Ward and the Rainbow."
                  from Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Palmer & Child #287

ALSO: Just for this century it's Twelfth Night, Epiphany and old Christmas and in Brooklyn it's Three Kings Day.

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