We be three poore mariners (Thomas Ravenscroft)

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• (Posted 2018-04-11)  CPDL #49300:     

Editor: Noah Towns (submitted 2018-04-11).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 43 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: TBB E Major

• (Posted 2016-08-28)  CPDL #40944:  Part Midis and Mp3s Available

Editor: Monique Rio (submitted 2016-08-28).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 183 kB   Copyright: CC BY 4.0

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General Information

Title: We be three poore mariners
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Unknown

First published: 1609 in Deuteromelia, no. 6
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

We be three poore mariners,
newly come from the seas,
We spend oure lives in jeopardy
whiles others live at ease:

Shall we goe daunce the round
and shall we go daunce the round?
And he that is a bully boy,
Come pledge me on the ground.

We care not for those martiall men
that do our states disdain;
but we care for those merchantmen
that do our states maintain.

To them we dance this round,
and to them we dance the round.
And he that is a bully boy,
come pledge me on this ground.