[Bg-dance] Fwd: If All the World Were Paper

s1ren s1renwoman at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 07:46:16 PDT 2012


Madylyne's Friend Sylvan, 2010:

If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops
Oh, what a rain that would be!
We'd be standing outside with our mouths open wide,
Singing AH AH AH AH AH AHHHHHHH!!!


;o)

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

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>    Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:57:36 -0500
>    From: Charlene Charette / Perronnelle
>    To: Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com>
>    Subject: If All the World Were Paper
>
> 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.
>
> The latter verses appear also in Poetical Collection cited in 'A
> Short-Title List 24, 26, 31, 42, 77, 83.
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