In einer eMail vom 01.12.2004 20:35:53 Westeurop=E4ische Normalzeit schreibt= =20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:=20
> Dear Ed, >=20 > >There must be heaps of stuff, but the general public may not know=20 > >those works before the Baroque other than a handful. >=20 > Well, they can learn... :-) > I think most important is that you tell this is christmas music... > (Well, you could perform Amarilli and tell it is christmas music! ;-) >=20 >=20 Dear Arto, what about the broadside ballad called to drive the cold Winter away. I have included the text below,=20 but my mails to the lute list always seem so garbled maybe because I use AOL ? The tune is available in a number of places on the net. A pleasant Countrey new Ditty: Merrily shewing how to drive the cold Winter away. To the tune of; Drive the Cold Winter Away All hayle to the days that merite more praise then all the rest of the year;= =20 & welcome the nights, that double delights as well for the poor as the peer:= =20 Good fortune attend each merry man's friend that doth but the best that he=20 may,=20 Forgetting old wrongs with Carrols and Songs to drive the cold winter away.=20 =20 The Court all in state now opens her gate an bids a free welcome to most;=20 The City likewise tho' somewhat precise doth willingly part with her cost;=20 And yet, by report from City to Court the Countrey gets the day:=20 More Liquor is spent, and better content, to drive the cold winter away.=20 =20 Thus none will allow of solitude now, but merrily greets the time,=20 To make it appeare of all the whole yeare that this is accounted the Prime,=20 December is seene apparel'd in greene and January, fresh as May,=20 Comes dancing along with a cup or a Song to drive the cold winter away.=20 =20 This time of the yeare is spent in good cheare, kind neighbours together to=20 meet=20 To sit by the fire, with friendly desire each other in love to greet:=20 Old grudges forgot are put in a pot, all sorrows aside they lay;=20 The old and the young doth carrol this Song, to drive the cold winter away.=20 =20 To maske and to mum kind neighbours will come with Wassels of nut-browne Ale= ,=20 To drinke and carouse to all in this house, as merry as buck in the pale;=20 Where cake, bread and cheese, is brought for yr fees to make you the longer=20 stay;=20 The fire to warme will do you no harme, to drive the cold winter away.=20 =20 When Christmas tide comes in like a Bride, with Holly and Ivy clad, --=20 Twelve dayes in the yeare much mirth and good cheare in every household is=20 had:=20 The Countrey guise is then to devise some gambols of Christmas play;=20 Whereas the yong men do best that they can to drive the cold winter away.=20 =20 When white-bearded Frost hath threatened his worst, & fallen from Branch &=20 Bryer,=20 & time away cals from husbandry hals, & from the good countryman's fire,=20 Together to go to Plow and to sow, to get us both food and array:=20 And thus with content the time we have spent to drive the cold winter away.=20 -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
