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At the Sign of the Jolly Jack · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: At the sign of the Jolly Jack. You, merry folk,
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  Speaker 1: be of good cheer for Christmas comes. But once a
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  Speaker 1: year from open door. You'll take no harm by winter
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  Speaker 1: if your hearts are warm, so open the door and
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  Speaker 1: hear us carol the burthen of our Christmas moral. Be
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  Speaker 1: Ye merry and make good cheer for Christmas comes. But
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  Speaker 1: once a year scrape the fiddle and beat the drum,
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  Speaker 1: and bury the night ere morning come. There was an
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  Speaker 1: inn beside a track, as it might be the Jolly Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Upon a night whate'er its name, there kept they Christmas
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  Speaker 1: all the same. They sit in jovial round at table,
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  Speaker 1: while Christ was lying in the stable. They make merry
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  Speaker 1: and have good cheer for Christmas comes. But once a
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  Speaker 1: year they scrape the fiddle and beat the drum, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll bury the night ere morning come. The Jolly Landlord
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  Speaker 1: stands him up and welcomes all to bite and sup.
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  Speaker 1: He has a hearty face and red. He knows not
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  Speaker 1: who lies in his shed, what harm if he be
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  Speaker 1: honest and true that he may be Christ's landlord too.
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  Speaker 1: So he makes mary and has good cheer for Christmas comes.
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  Speaker 1: But once a year he scrapes his fiddle and beats
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  Speaker 1: his drum, and he'll bury the night ere morning come.
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  Speaker 1: The landlord's son sits in his place, He bows his
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  Speaker 1: head and says his grace. He leads his partner to
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  Speaker 1: the dance, and the light of love is in his glance.
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  Speaker 1: If his thoughts are handsome as his face, what matter?
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  Speaker 1: If Christ be in the place. So he makes marry
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  Speaker 1: and has good cheer for Christmas comes. But once a
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  Speaker 1: year he scrapes his fiddle and beats his drum, and
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  Speaker 1: he'll bury the night ere morning come. Of all the
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  Speaker 1: folk that night, I ween some were honest and some
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  Speaker 1: were mean. If all were honest, twas well for all
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  Speaker 1: for Christ was sleeping in the stall. But never may
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  Speaker 1: Englishmen so fair that they, at Christmas should forbear to
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  Speaker 1: make them merry and have good cheer for Christmas comes.
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  Speaker 1: But once a year to scrape the fiddle and beat
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  Speaker 1: the drum, and bury the night. Ere morning come