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Title
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Here's a health to all good lasses
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Singer
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King, Robert
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, Alfred: Ms: 'For the glee I am indebted to Mr Robert King, of Castle Eaton. I have also heard them at Aston, and Southleigh, near Witney, Oxford. Glees were usually sung by those having slightly superior tastes in music; that is, by those above the average intelligence among the villagers, or by such as had been trained at some time or other to play on an instrument, it may have been a fiddle or a cornet in the local band, or in the choir on Sundays at the church.'
Williams, Alfred: WGS / FSUT: 'For the following glees [Come, ye friends of a social life] I am indebted to Mr Robert King, of Castle Eaton. I might mention the fact that I have also heard them at Aston, and Southleigh, near Witney, Oxfordshire. I find that glees were usually sung by those having slightly superior tastes in music; that is, by those above the average intelligence among the villagers, or by such as had been trained at some time or other to play on an instrument, it may have been a fiddle or a cornet in the local band, or in the choir on Sundays at the church.'
Note 2
In verse 1 Lines 3 and 4 the original text reads:
Pledge and to merrily fill your glasses,
Let the bumper too go round.
In Verse 2 Line 1 the original text read:
May they live a life of pleasure
In Verse 3 Lines 2 to 4 the original text read
Here's a health to all good lasses!
Let the bumper too go round!
May they live a life of pleasure
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.
