Lyrics The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Here's a man of jollity" - Sir Thomas Allen feat. Sylvia McNair, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
Give
us
not
a
drollity
Jive,
jolt,
jollop,
lie
Give
us
not
a
quality
Cock,
fool,
folly,
fie
If
you
rave
for
rapidly
Rave
around
and
rapidly
Into
it
we
flee
Bird
who
doesn't
sing
Leave
us
the
despair
and
night
In
the
art
of
merry
might
Into
it
we
grow
Cock
who
doesn't
crow
Banish
all
timidity
And
with
all
rapidity
Give
us
grip
and
pridity
Willy
nilly,
oh!
Rave
around
and
mollify
Into
it
we
throw
Fool
who
doesn't
folly,
fie
Cock
who
doesn't
crow
Banish
all
timidity
And
with
all
rapidity
Give
us
grip
and
pridity
Willy
nilly,
oh!
My
masters,
I
pray
you
bear
with
us,
and
we
will
satisfy
you;
for
We
are
merry
folk,
who
would
make
all
merry
as
ourselves.
For
Look
you,
there
is
humour
in
all
things,
and
the
truest
philosophy
Is
that
which
teaches
us
to
find
it,
and
to
make
the
most
of
it
Now,
wherewithal
shall
we
please
you?
We
can
rhyme
you
couplet
Triolet,
quatrain,
sonnet,
rondelet,
ballade,
what
you
will;
or
we
Can
dance
you
saraband,
gondolet,
carol,
pimple,
or
jumpit
jone
Let
us
give
them
the
singing
farce
of
the
Merryman
And
His
Maid;
therein
is
song
and
dance
too
1 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "'Tis done! I am a bride!"
2 The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 1: "Oh, how I would love thee!" - "Where I thy bride"
3 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Well, Sergeant Meryll"
4 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Oh, Sergeant Meryll" - "Ye Tower Warders" - "Leonard Meryll!" - "Forbear, my friends" - "Didst thou not" - "Leonard!" - "As escort for the prisoner"
5 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Hark! What was that, sir?" - "Who fired that shot?" "Like a ghost his vigil keeping." - "The river must be dragged"
6 The Yeomen of the Guard / Act 2: "When a wooer goes a-wooing"
7 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "The deed is, so far, safely accompished"
8 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Well sung and well danced!"
9 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Night has spread her pall once more"
10 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Nay, sweetheart, be comforted"
11 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Strange adventure!"
12 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Now listen to me"
13 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Before I pretend to be a sister to anybody again"
14 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Rapture, rapture!"
15 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "So my mysterious bride"
16 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "And now, Sir Richard"
17 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "'Tis an odd freak"
18 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "But I trust you are very careful"
19 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Comes the pretty young bride" - "'Tis said to you" - "Hold, pretty one!"
20 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Two days gone"
21 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Free from his fetters grim"
22 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "The merry jests of Hugh Ambrose"
23 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "And so thou wouldst be a jester, eh?"
24 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II: "Hereupon we're both agreed"
25 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "And so, good fellow" - "I've jibe and joke"
26 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Here's a man of jollity"
27 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "I have a song to sing, The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I
28 The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
29 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Mistress Meryll!"
30 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Tower warders under orders"
31 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "A good day to you!"
32 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "When our gallant Norman foes"
33 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Father! Has no reprieve arrived"
34 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Alas! I waver to and fro"
35 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, lass, be of good cheer"
36 The Yeomen of the Guard, Act I: "Nay, pretty one" - "Is life a boon?"
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