[Sca-cooks] Food Songs

[robert frazier]

thank you!
--- Ciorstan <ciorstan at attbi.com> wrote:
> Robert writes about "Bring Us In Good Ale"
>
> > where can we hear the tune for this?
>
> There is a sorta modern English version on Maddy
> Prior and Tim Hart's CD
> called "Summer Solstice" originally recorded prior
> to their involvement
> with Steeleye Span. Shanachie Records issued a
> reprint, and Crest (the
> original English label) reissued it as well. The
> refrain is a little
> different, but it's the same song:
>
> "But bring us in good ale, good ale, but bring us in
> good ale
> For our blessed Lady's sake, bring us in good ale"
>
> The other song, "Back and Side Go Bare" has a really
> kick-butt
> performance on Steeleye Span's "Bedlam Born," a
> relatively recent CD.
> It's called "The Beggar" on the cd's title list,
> though.
>
> I'd rather be a beggar than a king
> Tell you the reason why:
> A king can't swagger, nor drink like a beggar,
> Nor be half so happy as I.
>
> Chorus
>     Let the back and side go bare
>     Let the hands and feet go cold
>     Give to the belly beer enough
>     Whether it be new or old
>
> Sometimes we lie like hogs in a sty
> In a flock of straw on the ground
> Sometimes eat a crust that's rolled in the dust
> And are thankful it can be found.
>
> Sometimes we call at a rich man's hall
> To beg for bread and beer.
> Sometimes we're lame, sometimes we're blind,
> Sometimes too deaf to hear.
>
> Chorus
>
> From the hag and hungry goblin
> That into rags would rend you
> And the spirits that stand by the naked man
> In the book of moons defend you
>
> That of your five sound senses
> You never be forsaken
> Nor travel from yourselves with me
> Abroad to beg your bacon
>
> Well, hey, it does talk a little about food. ;)
>
> ciorstan
> (who collects cd's of folk-rock, go figger)
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robert frazier

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