Annotation:Three Merry Men of Kent

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THREE MERRY MEN OF KENT. English, Air (4/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. "Three Merry Men of Kent" is the indicated tune for a song in the ballad opera The Jovial Crew (1731), that begins:

He that will not merry, merry be,

With a generous bowl and toast;
May he in Bridewell be shut up,
And fast bound to a post.
Let him be merry, merry, merry there,
And we will be merry, merry, merry here;
For who can know where we may go,
To be merry another year, Brave boys,
To be merry another year.

However, the original words to "Merry Men of Kent" have been lost.

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|2}} Printed sources : - Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Time vol. 2), 1859; p. 161. {{safesubst:#invoke:string|rep|
|2}} Recorded sources : - Eron Enterprises ERON 003, "Shepway Folk" (1974). {{safesubst:#invoke:string|rep|
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