The three jolly pigeons - Löhr, Richard Harvey

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"Composed for, and dedicated to, the Sydney Liedertafel."

◈ Genre → Partsongs

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 6/8

♬ Voicing → ATBB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – A4

¶ Language → English

Measures 115

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 69814

Editor James Gibb

Posted 2022-06-27

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Alto

A3 – A4

Tenor

F3 – F4

Bass I

F2 – F3

Piano (practice only)

F2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

Let school-masters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better discerning. Let them brag of their heathenish gods, Their Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians; Their quis, and their quaes, and their quods, They're all but a parcel of pigeons. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll. When Methodist preachers come down, A-preaching that drinking is sinful, I'll wager the rascals a crown, They always preach best with a skinful. But when you come down with your pence, For a slice of their scurvy religion, I'll leave it to all men of sense, But you, my good friend, are the pigeon. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll. Then come, put the jorum about, And let us be merry and clever, Qur hearts and our liquors are stout, Here's the three jolly pigeons for ever. Let some cry up woodcock or hare, Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons; But of all the birds in the air, Here's a health to the three jolly pigeons. Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.