How Stands the Glass Around. Roose.0546

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T:How Stands the Glass Around. Roose.0546
T:Why Soldiers,Why?aka. Roose.0546
B:Roose MS, poss. Manchester, mid-late 19th century.
Z:Village Music Project 2019 Roger Hare
N:Other transcriptions exist, also at least one recording.
N:The song is loosely associated with Wolfe's Quebec campaign.
N:See also, Winstock, L., 'Songs and Music of the Redcoats', p.58.
N:NB-Quaver in ms
M:C|
L:1/8
Q:1/4=120
K:Am
y E2 | A3 B c2 d2 | e6 E2 | A3 c B2 A2 | ^G3 ^F E2 E2 |
A3 B c2 d2 | e6 E2 | A3 B cBA^G | A4 z2 :|
|: g2 | e4 (e3 f/g/) | {e2}d4 z2 c2 | d3 e {g}f2 {e}d2 | g3 a g2 f2 |
e4 !trill!d3 c | c4 z2 c2 | {c2}B4 e3 A | (A2 ^G2) z2 "NB"E2 |
A3 B c2 d2 | e3 f e2 d2 | c4 !trill!B4 | A4 z2 :|
W: THE WORDS (Not from this MS)
W:.
W: How stands the glass around
W: for shame you take no care, my boys,
W: How stands the glass around
W: Let wine and mirth abound.
W: the trumpet sound
W: the colors they do fly my boys
W:To fight kill and wound
W:as you would be found,
W:Contented with hard fare, my boys
W:on the Cold ground
W:
W:O why, soldiers why
W:O why should we be melancholy boys
W:O why soldiers why
W:Whose Business is to die
W:What sithing [sighing] fye
W:Let's not fear, Drink and be Jolly, boys
W:you and I through wet Cold or Dry
W:Our orders are to follow boys
W:we scorn to flye
W:
W:It is in vain
W:I mean not to upbraid you boys
W:It is in vain
W:for a soldier to Complain
W:for the next Campaign
W:we go to him that made us boys
W:free from all pain
W:But if you should Remain
W:A Bottle and kind Landlady
W:will Cure all again

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