How Stands the Glass
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Digital Tradition, howstand
History
was part of ballad opera The Patron, 1729. Sometimes called "Wolfe's Song"
According to Dolph ("Sound Off"), appeared in a London broadside in 1710;
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X:2670
T:How Stands the Glass
O:england
S:Digital Tradition, howstand
H:According to Dolph ("Sound Off"), appeared in a London broadside in 1710;
H:was part of ballad opera The Patron, 1729. Sometimes called "Wolfe's Song"
B:From Contentment, Jim Douglas
B:Collected from notebook of Thos. Fanning, 1780
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
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
K:Bb
D2|G3A B2c2|d6D2|G3B A2G2|_G3E D2D2|\
G3A B2c2|d6D2|G3G B-AG-_G|G6f2|
d4 d4|c4 z2B2|c2d2 e2c2|f3g f2e2|d4 c3B|B4 z2B2|
A4 d3G|_G4 z2D2|G3A B2c2|d3e d2c2|B4 A4|G6z2||
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