pennsicdance: Tomorrow The Fox (query for lyrics)

[Helen Dolbey]

Hello!
Maugorn wrote:
> At the barn, (I think it was Friday night) the musicians did a
> wondrously silly piece of work called "Tomorrow The Fox"
> which had some incredibly sweet lyrics about this evil
> fox who was surely a threat to all Christendom, replete
> with villagers whooping and many panicked barnyard animal
> noises right there in the score.
>
> Anyway, in my Pennsic Pile, there was only the
> first verse of this musical treat that I simply *MUST*
> share with my all too serious troop here.
> Eris commands me and I must obey.
>
> Are any of those very nice wonderful people who
> knew the whole thing on this list and is it possible
> to send me the rest of the lyrics?

Here are the lyrics:
1) Tommorrow the fox will come to town
   Keep, keep ,keep, keep, keep
   Tommorrow the fox will come to town
	Oh keep you all well there
	I must desire you neighbours all, to hallow the fox out of the hall,
	and cry as loud as you can call,
	Whoop, whoop whoop whoop whoop!
	And cry as loud as you can call
	O Keep you all well there

2) He'll steal the cock e'en from the flock
   Cock a doo, Cock a doo
   He'll steal the cock e'en from the flock
	all the indented stuff above

3)He'll steal the hen out of the pen
  Cluck, cluck ,cluck ,cluck
  He'll steal the hen out of the pen

4) He'll steal the duck out of the brook
   Quack, quack quack, quack
  He'll steal the duck out of the brook

5) He'll steal the lamb e'en from his dam
   Baa, baa, baa, baa, baa
   He'll steal the lamb e'en from his dam

Hope you like them.  They were written by Thomas Ravencroft and published in
'Deuteromelia' (1609).

Helen (part of Caldrithig choir-- and one of the singers that night!)


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