X: 1
T: the Vicar of Bray
O: 1728
N: Reportedly from a ballad-opera, but I don't know its name.
N: This tune is a variant of Country Garden(s), also first published in 1728. It has had many sets of words.
N: These lyrics were initially sung to several melodies, and settled onto this one in the late 1700s.
B: "The music of George Washington's time", John Howard Tasker, 1932
F: https://archive.org/details/musicofgeorgewas00geor
R: march
Z: 2014 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: C
L: 1/8
K: D
A2 |\
d2 (cB) A2 B2 | G2 A2 F2 G2 | A2 D2 G2 F2 | E4 D2 A2 |
w: In good King* Charles'-s gold-en days, When loy-al-ty no harm meant, A
d2 (cB) A2 B2 | G2 A2 F2 G2 | A2 D2 G2 F2 |E4 D2 ||
w: zeal-ous* high-church man was I, And so I got pre-fer-ment.
A2 |\
d2 B2 c2 A2 | d2 (cB) c2 A2 | d2 (cd) e2 (dc) | B4 A2 A2 |
w: To teach my flock I nev-er* miss'd, Kings were by* God ap-*point-ed, And
d2 (cB) A2 B2 | G2 A2 F2 G2 | A2 D2 G2 F2 | E4 D2 ||
w: lost are* those that dare re-sist Or touch the Lord's a-noint-ed.
A2 |\
d2 (cB) c2 A2 | (dc) (dB) c2 A2 | d2 (cd) e2 (dc) | B4 A2 A2 |
w: And this is* law that I'll* main'*tain Un-til my* dy-ing* day, sir, that
d2 (cB) A2 B2 | G2 A2 F2 G2 | A2 DD GGF2 | E4 D2 |]
w: what-so-*ev-er King shall reign, Still I'll be the Vi-car of Bray, sir.