Sweet Trinidado - musical pipe sighting
- From: Mujin <umwinkl0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:49:01 -0500
While listening to one of my favourite CDs, I noticed (not for the first time) a
wonderful song which is all about the pleasures of the pipe, and to hell with the
antis - and this from a song written in 1608 by a guy named Weelkes in London:
Come sirrah Jacke, Hoe!
Fill some tobacco,
Bring a wire[1] and some fire,
Hast, hast away, quick I say, do not stay, shun delay,
For I dranke[2] none good today;
I sweare that this tobacco it's perfect Trinidado;
By the very very mass; never, never, never was
better gere than is here, by the roode[3], for the bloude,
It is very very good, 'tis very good.
Fill the pipe once more,
My brains daunce Trenchmore[4]
It is heady, I am giddy,
My head and braines, back and raines, joints and vaines, from all the pains
it doth well purge and make cleane.
Then those that doe condemne it, or such as not commend it,
Never were so wise to learne good Tobacco to discerne:
Let them go, pluck a crow, and not know as I do
The sweet of Trinidado!
[1] Not sure what this might mean - probably a wire to ream the long stem of a tavern
pipe.
[2] Remember! Tobacco is for sipping and relishing! At one time one "drank" tobacco
smoke.
[3] the roode = the cross
[4] Trenchmore = a fast country dance with a lot of twirling and spinning
If anyone's interested, my recording is a CD entitled "the art of bawdy song" by the
Baltimore Consort and The Merry Companions. It's a collection of Elizabethan songs
intended to accompany one's "bawdy" entertainments - they're hilarious as well as
illuminating.
My favourite at the moment is "My man John had a thing that is long/My maid Mary has
a thing that is hairy."
Naturally, it's a song about repairing a brush, but you can see how it goes! <g>
Thomas Hinds "Admiral's Club" (a broken flake) in a claw-shaped clay.
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