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This section contains the songs: The chastity belt, Come landlord fill, The Cuckoo's Nest Flodden Field, Gaudette and Jerusalem. The chastity belt Oh say gentle maiden may I be your lover Condemn me no longer to mourn and to weep Struck down like a hart I lie wounded and fainting Oh let down your drawbridge I'll enter your keep CHORUS: Enter your keep, nonny, nonny Enter your keep, nonny, nonny Let down your drawbridge I'll enter your keep Alas gentle errant, I am not a maiden I'm married to Sir Oswald, the cunning old celt He's gone to the war for a twelve month or longer And taken the key to my chastity belt CHORUS
Fear not gentle maiden, for I know a locksmith To his forge we will go, on his door we will knock And try to avail us of his specialist knowledge And see if he's able to unpick your lock
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Alas sir and madam to help I'm unable My technical knowledge is of no avail I can't find the secret of your combinations The cunning old bastard has fitted a yale
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I'm back from the war with sad news of disaster A terrible mishap I have to confide As my ship ws passing the straits of Gibraltar I carelessly dropped the key over the side
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Alas and alack I am locked up forever Then up steps a page boy says leave this to me If you will allow me to enter my chamber I'll open it up with my duplicate key
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Come landlord fill CHORUS: Come Landlord fill the flowing bowl until it doth runover Come Landlord fill the flowing bowl until it doth runover For tonight we'll merry, merry, be (X3) Tomorrow we'll be sober
Here's to the man who drinks small ale and goes to bed quite sober Here's to the man who drinks small ale and goes to bed quite sober Fades as the leaves do fade (X3) That fall off in October
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Here's to the man who drinks strong ale and goes to bed quite mellow Here's to the man who drinks strong ale and goes to bed quite mellow Lives as he ought to live (X3) And dies a jolly good fellow
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Here's to the girl who steals a kiss and runs to tell her mother Here's to the girl who steals a kiss and runs to tell her mother She's a very foolish thing (X3) She'll never get another
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Here's to the girl who steals a kiss and runs back for another Here's to the girl who steals a kiss and runs back for another She's a boon to all mankind (X3) But soon she'll be a mother
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If I had a pile of bricks I'd build my chimney higher If I had a pile of bricks I'd build my chimney higher That would stop the neighbours cat (X3) From pissing in my fire
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Come walk along this leafy lane and don't be so particular Come walk along this leafy lane and don't be so particular If the grass is very wet (X3) We'll do it perpendicular
The Cuckoo's NestAs I was a walking one morning in May I met a pretty maid and unto her did say "For love I am inclined and I'll tell you of my mind That my inclination lies in your cuckoo's nest" "My darling" says she "I am innocent and young and I can scarcely believe your false deluding tongue But I see in your eyes and it fills me with surprise That your inclination lies in my cuckoo's nest"
CHORUS Some like a girl who is pretty in the face And some like a girl who is slender in the waist But give me a girl who will wriggle and will twist At the bottom of her belly lies the cuckoo's nest
"My darling" says I " If you see it in my eyes Then think of it as fondness and do not be surprised For I love you dear and I'll marry you I swear If you'll let me clap my hands on your cuckoo's nest" "My darling" says she "I shall do no such thing For my mother often told me it was committing sin For my maidenhead to lose and my sex to be abused So have no more to do with my cuckoo's nest"
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"My darling" says I "It is not committing sin And common-sense should tell you it is a pleasing thing For you were brought into this world to increase and do your best And to help a man to heaven in you cuckoo's nest" "My darling" says she "I cannot you deny For you've surely won my heart with the roving of your eye But I see it in your eyes that you courage is surprised So gently lift your hand in my cuckoo's nest"
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So this couple they got married and soon they went to bed And there this pretty fair maid has lost her maidenhead In a small country cottage they increase and do their best And he often claps his hand on her cuckoo's nest
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Flodden FieldFrom Spey to the border was peace and good order The sway of our Monarch was mild as the May Peace he adored which the English abhorred Our Marches they plunder our wardens they slay
Gainst Louis our ally, their Henry did sally Though James but in vain did his heralds advance Renouncing alliance and announcing defiance To southerlandly plunder if abiding in France
Englands invasion it was our persuasion To make restitution for their cruelties But Oh, fatal Flodden there came a woedown And our royal nation was brought to decay
The flowers of the nation were broughty to their station With valiant inclination their valour to display At Barriemuir resorting their right for supporting And fair and divalsing emcamped did lay
The English advanced to where they were stanced Half entrenched by nature the field it so lay To fight the English spearing and shame their retiring But alas unperceived was their subtlety
Our highland battalion so forward and valiant They broke, broke their ranks and they rushed on to slay With hacking and slashing and broadswords a dashing Through the front of the English they cut a bold swathe
But alas to their ruin, an ambush pursuing And they were surrounded by numbers so high The Merse men and fullest they suffered the sorest Upon the left wing were enclosed the same way
Our men into parties the battle into quarters Upon our mainbody their marksmen did play The spearmen were surrounded and all was confounded The fatal devastation of that woeful day
Our nobles were ensnared, our king he was not spared For love and fight he shared it for he would not run away The whole was intercepted that very few escaped The fatal conflagration of that woeful day
Published in Piae Cantiones in 1582 but known to be much older CHORUS: Gaudette, gaudette, christus est natus Ex maris virginae, gaudette (Repeat) Tempus adest gratiae hoc quod optabamus Carmina laetitiae devote redamus CHORUS Deus homo factus est natura mirante Mundus renovatus est a christo regnante CHORUS Ezechielis porta clausa per transitur Unde lux est orta salus invenitor
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Ergo nostra concio psalatiam in lustro Benedicat domino salus Regi nostro
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Jerusalem
Not Authenitic but very popular!
And did those feet in ancient times Walk upon Englands mountains green And was the holy lamb of god On Englands pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon the crowded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold ! Bring me my arrows of desire ! Bring me my spear, O' clouds unfold ! Bring me my chariots of fire ! I will not cease from mortal strife Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In Englands green and pleasant land
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