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Collection and is reprinted in the Appendix to Motherwell's " Minstrelsy." Many songs were written to the air, and, among these, three may be noted. The first, to encourage enlistment in the reign of Queen Anne, commences:
ft Hark how the drams beat up again For all true soldiers, gentlemen ; Then let us 'list and march away Over the hills and far away.
" Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal, and Spain ; Queen Anne commands, and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away."
This is from "The Merry Companion." The second and third are anti-Jacobite songs of 1745, one, "The Duke's Defeat of the Rebels," beginning:
" Come, my boys, let's drink and sing-Success to George, our sovereign King,"
and the other, " A Loyal Song, sung by Mr. Beard at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden/' commencing:
" From barren Caledonia's lands,
Where famine, uncontrouPd, commands, The rebel clans in search of prey Came over the hills and far away." 162 |
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