X: 2023
T: Boar's Head Carol   [G]
R: Air
C: Trad. 1521
O: England
S: https://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=pghardy.net/tunebooks/pgh_xmas_tunebook/0007 2023-11-07
Z: Paul Hardy's Xmas Tunebook 2019 (see www.paulhardy.net). Creative Commons cc by-nc-sa licenced.
N: Version from Darlene Wigton & Clare Hurley
Z: 2023 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
N: ca. 15th C, from Joseph Ames collection of Typographical Antiquities, 1812 (as sung at Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1811)
M: 4/4
L: 1/4
%Q: 1/4=140
K: G
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d | "G"g2 g>g | "D"f "G"g "D"d>B | "C"cc "Am"e>c | "D"dd H"G"g ||
d | "G"g>g gg | "D"f "G"g "D"d>B | "C"cc "Am"e>c | "D"dd H"G"g2 |]
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"G"[bg]>[bg] "D"[af][af] | "Em"[ge][ge] "Bm"[f2d2] | "C"[ec][ec] "G"[dB][gB] | "D"[dA][fc] "G"[g2B2] :|
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W:1.The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedecked with bays and rosemary;
W: And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio.
W: |: Caput Apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino. :|
W:2.The boar's head, as I understand, Is the rarest dish in all this land;
W:Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland, Let us servire cantico.
W: |: Caput Apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino. :|
W:3.Our steward hath provided this, In honour of the king of bliss;
W:Which on this day to be served is, In Reginensi Atrio.
W: |: Caput Apri defero, Reddens laudes Domino. :|
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