Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on September 30th 2009 by Mario Folena.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
X: 1
T: Invitation, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: hornpipe
K: Dmaj
d2 A2 A2 GF | EF G2 GBAG | FABc dAGF | EDCB, A,gfe |
f2 d2 dfaf |gfed cbag |fd'c'b afge | f2 d2 d4 |
|: d2 A2 A2 GF | EF G2 GBAG |1 FABc dABG | F2 D2 D4 :|2 FABc dAge | f2 d2 d4 ||
|: d2 A2 dfed | e2 A2 egfe |fdec dBed | c2 A2 A2 dc |
B2 G2 G2 ed |c2 F2 A2 Bc |1 dABF GEAG | F2 D2 D4 :|2 dABF Ggfe | f2 d2 d4 {abc'} ||
d'2 a2 a2 gf | ef g2 gbag | fd'c'b afge | f2 d2 d4 ||
by John Collett (b c1735; d Edinburgh, 1775)
THE INVITATION
Come ye party Jangling Swains
Leave your Flocks & quit your Plains
Friends to Country Friends to Court
No thing here shall Spoil your sport
Ever welcome to our Feast
Welcome ev'ry Friendly Guest
Be it Peace or be it War
Both or either I don't care
Prithee Colin what have you
Or I with Peace or War to do
Ever welcome to our Feast
Welcome ev'ry Friendly Guest
All that ripning Sun can bring
Beauty Summer beauty spring
In one varying scene me show
The Green ye Ripe ye Bud ye Blow
Ever welcome to our Feast
Welcome ev'ry Blooming Guest
Spritly Widows come away
Laughing Dames & Virgins gay
Little gaudy fluttering Misses
Smiling hopes of future blisses
Ever welcome to our Feast
Welcome every spritly Guest
Comus Jesting Music charming
Wine inspiring beauty warming
Rage and party malice dies
Peace returns & discord flies
Emblem of the Joys above
All is rapture all is Love
Cho. Comus Jesting &c.
# Posted on September 30th 2009 by Mario Folena