Ah friends how happy are we here (Samuel Akeroyd)

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• (Posted 2022-07-08)  CPDL #69920:         

Editor: Wim Looyestijn (submitted 2022-07-08).   Score information: Unknown, 2 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Ah friends how happy are we here
Composer: Samuel Akeroyd
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: SB
Genre: Secular, Consort song

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1692 in The Gentlemen's Journal, or the Monthly Miscellany; July 1692, pg. 30-32
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Original text and translations

English text

Ah, friends, how happy are we here,
blest with good drink, and with good cheer;
we're crown'd with joys above all measure,
in war we fear to loose our life,
in love ther's jealousy and strife,
by trade and play we loose our treasure.
But here, but here, unless our bowl should fall,
and some mischance should spill it all,
nothing can ever baulk our pleasure.