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To Portsmouth

Language: English

To Portsmouth! To Portsmouth! It is a gallant town:
And there we will  have a quart of wine with a nutmeg brown,
Diddle down!
The gallant ship, tje Mermaid, the Lion, hanging stout,
Did make us to spend there our sixteen pence all out.
Diddle down!


Input by Linda Godry

Authorship

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

    * by Melvill David , "To Portsmouth", published 1612 [round for four voices], from Book of Roundels [setting text verified]

Date added to the website: 2009-01-17.

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