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Song: Dragoons have a care, here’s a health to the...

by Henry Hall . For Three voices , in G major

Text:

Dragoons have a care,
here’s a health to the Czar,
we’ll all do the mighty Rus reason,
examine your cup,
that you drink it all up,
if you leave but one drop, ’tis high treason,
would you drink like a Rus
while you take it off thus?
still with pepper improve your weak brandy,
and then to be just,
to give it a gust,
still let nitre supply sugar candy,
thus armed let it blow,
let it hail, let it snow,
it will ne’er make our hero look thin Sir,
warm without with the hair
of his dear brother bear
and the cordial I wot on within Sir.

This song in sources:

UofG Library ASC R.c.5 (coll.1)

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Version 8e32e8d8d4ff87611fd1ef7b6f028a335f89012d (2021-10-22T17:00:34+01:00)