We be three poore mariners (Thomas Ravenscroft)
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- Editor: Monique Rio (submitted 2016-08-28). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 183 kB Copyright: CC BY 4.0
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Title: We be three poore mariners
Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft
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Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Unknown
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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.