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CHORUS AT THE GREEN BEAR INN by HERBERT TRENCH

First Line: RUDDY OLD SHEPHERD, BLITHE OF CHEER
Last Line: (LONG MAY IT MARCH BEFORE US!)
Subject(s): SHEPHERDS & SHEPHERDESSES; SONG WRITING; HOTELS;
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RUDDY old Shepherd, blithe of cheer,

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(@3Here's to the leg that's lusty!@1)

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When comes to you the pick of the year?

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(@3Mark what he says . . . he's trusty!@1)

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"When I watch yon Fire in the chimney roar. . . ."

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(@3What in the embers dreamt he?@1)

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"And sparks flee up from the embers' core. . . ."

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(@3Fill up his can -- it's empty!@1)

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"While out on the moorland gale I hear. . . ."

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(@3Here's to the woes we bury!@1)

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"Some Fiddle, ranting and rovering near! . . ."

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(@3Hail to that fiddler merry!@1)

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"Yon Fire, so great and so quick with glee. . . ."

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(@3Here's to the world so stormy!@1)

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"Is Love, the breath o' the world, you see. . . ."

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(@3Here's to the mother that bore me!@1)

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"And . . . hark to the Fiddle! . . That's Hope! Play on. . . ."

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(@3Fiddle, we send a chorus!@1)

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"Idling and wheeling, and come and gone! . . ."

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(@3Long may it march before us!@1)



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