The Downfall of Charing Cross - Farmelo, Francis

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◈ Genre / Form Partsongs

♯ Tonart F major

⁄ Taktart 2/2

♬ Besetzung → TTB

◆ Difficulty

Unterstufe

↕ Tonumfang F – g'

♩ Tempo 114

◷ Dauer ~32 sec

¶ Sprache → Englisch

Takte 15

Textur mixed texture

Stimmen 3

Instrumente A cappella

Seiten 2

CPDL Nr. 81416

Bearbeiter Pauline Emily

Veröffentlicht 2024-07-26

Lizenz Gemeinfrei

♫Tonumfänge

Cantus

e – g'

Medius

e – f'

Bassus

F – B-3

Schlagwörter

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1. Undone, undone the lawyers are; They wander about the town, And cannot find the way to Westminster, Now Charing Cross is down; At the end of the Strand, they make a stand, Swearing they are at a loss, And chaffing, say, ‘that’s not the way’, They must go by Charing Cross. 2. The Parliament to vote it down Conceived it very fitting For fear it should fall and kill ’em all I’th’ House as they were sitting; They were informed ’t had such a plot, Which made ’em so hard-hearted To give express command, It should be taken down and carted. 3. Men talk of plots, this might have been worse, For any thing I know, Than that Tomkins and Chaloner Was hanged for long ago; But as our Parliament from that Themselves strangely defended, So still they discover plots Before they be intended. 4. For neither man, woman nor child Will say, I’m confident, They ever heard it speak one word Against the Parliament; ’T had letters about it, some says, Or else it had been freed; ’Fore God I’ll take my oath That it could neither write nor read. 5. The committee said, verily, To popery ’twas bent; For aught I know, it might be so, For to church it never went; What with excise, and other loss, The kingdom doth begin To think you’ll leave ’em ne’er a cross Without door nor within. 6. Methinks the common council should Of it have taken pity, ’Cause, good old cross, it always stood So strongly to the city; Since crosses you so much disdain, Faith, if I were as you, For fear the king should rule again, I’d pull down Tyburn too.

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