Chorus
I’ll romp and I’ll rave, and I’ll call for my bode,
They may all say what they will;
Resolved as I am, just as long as I can,
For to drink good liquor still.
Compare also ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor’, Sharp, i., 124, tune ‘N’. ‘Marion’ belongs to the ‘[Babe of Bethlehem]’ group of tunes. See the song by that title in this collection. ‘Kingsfold’, No. 270 in the Christian Science Hymnal is the same. In the English Methodist Hymn Book, ‘Kingsfold’ is given as a traditional melody of England. See also Petrie, Nos. 193 and 863.
No. 39
[UNION], OSH 116
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)
Come, brothers and sisters who love one another