My pocket's low and taxes high (Samuel Webbe)
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- (Posted 2022-01-17) CPDL #67614:
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-01-17). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 387 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: My pocket's low and taxes high
Composer: Samuel Webbe
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composercreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: c.1805 (n/d)
Description: Income tax had been introduced by Pitt the Younger in 1798, to help fund the wars against France. Webbe also embedded the national anthem in another glee of similar date, British sentiments.
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Original text and translations
English text
My pocket's low and taxes high;
Ah! I could sit me down and cry
But why despair? The times may mend
Our loyalty shall us befriend.
God save great George our king,
Long live our noble king,
God save our king.
Send him victorious, happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save our king.
Propitious fortune yet may smile
On fair Britannia's sea-girt isle,
Then poverty shall take her flight,
And we will sing by day and night:
God save great George our king,
Long live our noble king,
God save our king.
Send him victorious, happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save our king.