Mallard Song - The Song

The Song

The words of the song are as follows:

The Griffine, Bustard, Turkey & Capon

Lett other hungry Mortalls gape on

And on theire bones with Stomacks fall hard,

But lett All Souls' Men have ye Mallard.

CHORUS:

Hough the bloud of King Edward,

By ye bloud of King Edward,

It was a swapping, swapping mallard!

Some storys strange are told I trow

By Baker, Holinshead & Stow

Of Cocks & Bulls, & other queire things

That happen'd in ye Reignes of theire Kings.

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The Romans once admir'd a gander

More than they did theire best Commander,

Because hee saved, if some don't foolle us,

The place named from ye Scull of Tolus.

CHORUS

The Poets fain'd Jove turn'd a Swan,

But lett them prove it if they can.

To mak't appeare it's not att all hard:

Hee was a swapping, swapping mallard.

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Hee was swapping all from bill to eye,

Hee was swapping all from wing to thigh;

His swapping tool of generation

Oute swapped all ye wingged Nation.

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Then lett us drink and dance a Galliard

in ye Remembrance of ye Mallard,

And as ye Mallard doth in Poole,

Lett's dabble, dive & duck in Boule.

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