An Apres Morris Song Archive - The Morris Ring
An Apres Morris Song Archive - The Morris Ring
An Apres Morris Song Archive - The Morris Ring
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Bring Me Sunshine (Sylvia Dee)<br />
Bring me Sunshine, in your smile,<br />
Bring me Laughter, all the while,<br />
In this world where we live, there should be more<br />
happiness,<br />
So much joy you can give, to each brand new bright<br />
tomorrow,<br />
Make me happy, through the years,<br />
Never bring me, any tears,<br />
Let your arms be as warm as the sun from up above<br />
Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love.<br />
Bring me Sunshine, in your eyes,<br />
Bring me rainbows, from the skies,<br />
Life's too short to be spent having anything but fun,<br />
We can be so content, if we gather little sunbeams,<br />
Be light-hearted, all day long,<br />
Keep me singing, happy songs,<br />
Let your arms be as warm as the sun from up above<br />
Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love.<br />
ed: Let`s lower the tone, things are too nice here...<br />
Bring me shingles, bring me piles<br />
Bring me tapeworm, miles and miles....<br />
Brisk Young Tailor (trad)<br />
It’s of a brisk young tailor a story I’ll relate<br />
He lived at an Inn called the Ram and the Gate<br />
<strong>The</strong> Ram and the Gate was the place where he did<br />
dwell<br />
<strong>An</strong>d wine and women’s company he loves exceeding well.<br />
Oh well, oh well, oh well me boys oh well<br />
<strong>An</strong>d wine and women’s company he loves exceeding<br />
well<br />
Now this tailor he’d been drinking a glass or two of wine<br />
<strong>An</strong>d not being used to drinking why it caused his<br />
face to shine<br />
It caused his face to shine just like the rising sun<br />
<strong>An</strong>d he swore he’d have a bonny lass before the night<br />
was done<br />
So he sat her on his knee and he called her his sweet<br />
honey<br />
<strong>An</strong>d as they were talking she was fingering of his money<br />
She was fingering of his money when the tailor<br />
smiled and said<br />
If you lend me your petticoats I’ll dance like a maid<br />
<strong>The</strong> tailor pulled his breeches off and the petticoats put on<br />
<strong>The</strong> tailor danced a dance while the lass she sang a song<br />
<strong>The</strong> tailor danced a dance and played a pretty tune<br />
<strong>An</strong>d she danced the tailors breeches right out of the<br />
room<br />
Oh has ever a poor tailor been as done as I’ve been<br />
done<br />
My watch and my money and breeches are all gone<br />
Oh how can I go home like this they’ garden flower<br />
<strong>An</strong>d if ever I get my breeches back I’ll never dance no more<br />
Bring Us a Barrel (Keith Marsden)<br />
1. No man that`s a drinker drinks Ale from a pin<br />
Because there’s too little stuff within.<br />
Four and a half is each measure in full,<br />
Too small for our sup; not enough for us all,<br />
chorus:<br />
So bring us a barrel, and set it up right,<br />
Bring us a barrel to last out the night,<br />
Bring us a barrel, no matter how high,<br />
We’ll drink it up lads, we’ll drink it dry.<br />
2. That poor little firkin, nine gallons in all,<br />
Though the ale, it is good, the measure`s too small<br />
For lads that are drinkers, like you and like I,<br />
That firkin small barrel will quickly run dry.<br />
3. So roll out your hogshead and roll out the butt,<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are the measures before us to put,<br />
<strong>The</strong> jug will pass round and good ale, it will flow,<br />
<strong>An</strong>d we’ll be content for an hour or so.<br />
4. <strong>An</strong>d when I am dying and on my death bed,<br />
By my bedside leave a fine full hogshead,<br />
<strong>An</strong>d if down below I must go when I die,<br />
<strong>The</strong>n me and Old Nick, we can both drink it dry,<br />
Bring Us a Teapot (ad by ed, tune: Bring Us a Barrel)<br />
1. No man that`s a drinker drinks tea that ain`t hot<br />
Cos you don`t get the flavour inside your teapot<br />
A steaming hot liquid you need for a brew<br />
For to bring full contentment for me and for you.<br />
Chorus:<br />
So bring us a teapot and set it upright<br />
Bring us a teapot to last us the night<br />
Bring us a teapot no matter how hot<br />
We`ll drink it up boys we`ll drink the lot<br />
2. So come ye bold heroes and list` to my song<br />
I`ve sung in the praise of hot tea for so long<strong>The</strong>re`s<br />
nice little teashops over England do roll<br />
Bring me the milk ladle and the grand sugar bowl.<br />
3. For we`re still upstanding when we down our pot<br />
<strong>An</strong>d we don`t much fall over when we drink a lot.<br />
But tea`s more diuretic than ale it is true<br />
<strong>An</strong>d we spend half our time in the gentlemen`s loo.<br />
4. A thing happened last week to sour my mood<br />
<strong>The</strong>y gave me some iced tea which wasn`t quite<br />
brewed<br />
<strong>An</strong>d charged a huge fortune I could ill afford<br />
Which froze all my assets and had to be thawed.<br />
5. When I`m on my deathbed there`s one thing to do<br />
Lay by my side a hot, full flavoured brew<br />
<strong>An</strong>d if down below I must go when I die<br />
Me and Old Nick we will both drink it dry!<br />
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