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Dix chants populaires écossais

Song Cycle by Paul Le Flem (1881 - 1984)

10. Robin good fellow  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
And can the physician make sick men well?
And can the magician a fortune divine?
Without lily, germander, and sops-in-wine,
With sweet-briar and bonfire
And strawberry wire and columbine.

With in and out, in and out, round as a ball,
With hither and thither, as straight as a line,
With lily, germander, and sops-in-wine,
With sweet-briar and bonfire
And strawberry wire and columbine.

When Saturn did live, there lived no poor,
The king and the beggar with roots did dine,
With lily, germander, and sops-in-wine,
With sweet-briar and bonfire
And strawberry wire and columbine.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, written <<1600, appears in Robin Goodfellow: commonly called Hob-Goblin, with his mad pranks and merry jests, first published 1628

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Total word count: 94
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