[Bg-dance] If all the world were paper

[Nadine Latief]

1641?? That's earlier than I thought.

Lowrie.

At 09:56 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote:
>tmcd at panix.com wrote:
>>If all the world were paper
>>And all the seas were ink
>>If all the trees were bread and cheese
>>What would we do for drink?
>>If all the bottles leak{'e}d
>>And none but had a crack
>>If Spanish apes ate all the grapes
>>What would we do for sack?
>>Danel Lincoln
>
>Those are the two verses usually sung in the SCA.  Here are the rest:
>
>=====
>
>Ault, Norman; Seventeenth Century Lyrics
>Wit's Recreations, 1641
>
>If all the world were paper,
>         And all the sea were ink,
>And all the trees were bread and cheese
>         What should we do for drink?
>
>If all the world were sand-o,
>         Oh, then what should we lack-o?
>If, as they say, there were no clay,
>         How should we take tobacco?
>
>If all our vessels ran-a,
>         If none but had a crack-a;
>If Spanish apes ate all the grapes,
>         How should we do for sack-a?
>
>If friars had no bald pates,
>         Nor nuns had no dark cloisters;
>If all the seas were beans and beans,
>         How should we do for oysters?
>
>If there had been no projects,
>         Nor none that did great wrongs,
>If fiddlers shall turn players all,
>         How should we do for songs?
>
>If all things were eternal,
>         And nothing their end bringing;
>If this should be, then how should we
>         Here make an end of singing?
>
>Note:  This nonsense rhyme is entitled 'Interrogativa Cantilena' in 
>the text.  It was probably inspired by the following little song of 
>an earlier date which has survived in British Museum Add. MS. 22601, [c. 1603]:
>
>         If all the Earthe were paper white
>                 and all the sea were incke
>         'Twere not inough for me to write
>                 as my poore hart doth thinke.
>=====
>
>Not quite enough lyrics to sing the whole dance.
>
>--Perronnelle
>
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