Catches, canons and drinking songs

to your rude health,

Item: But thirty years Tom lived, ’tis true but,...

by Jon. Battishill . For Three voices, in A major

Song: But thirty years Tom lived, ’tis true but,...

But thirty years TOM liv'd, 'tis true but, living thirty, threescore knew, he threescore knew, but thirty years TOM liv'd 'tis true, but living thirty, threescore knew!
For 'stead of sleeping fifteen, he who never never sleeps who never Sleeps must sixty be, must sixty be, for 'stead of sleeping fifteen, he who never sleeps who never sleeps must sixty be.
This TOM averr'd and nobly nobly cry'd he'd never Sleep, then sleeping dy'd. this TOM averr'd and nobly cry'd he never slept he never slept, then sleeping sleeping dy'd.

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