Teh Quest For Drinking Songs

[minstrlmummr]

Paging Liamstliam, siobhan1214 and woodwindy....

seeking two sets of lyrics:

---(woodwindy, siobhan1214) from the Noisemakers' Jam session, who wrote the English lyrics we used for ''In Taverna''? Is a copy available, anywhere, with author credit?

---(Liam) One of my local buds (Ysenda) is a Calontiri ex-pat, who remembered English words written to another Latin drinking song, ''bacche bene venies''. If my friend cannot locate a copy of the song, is there someone among your contacts who'd be good to ask?

seeking those two drinking songs in particular, to add to 'The Little Barley-corn'' for group singing at the event of the same name...

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Greetings from Yr. Friends at Goliards Ya Us :-)

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

I'm not Liam :-) but I have singable English lyrics (it's a corny Victorian translation, but they rhyme and scan) to "Bacche, Bene Venies." (I believe I also have "In Taberna," but it might not be the same translation you're looking for.)

Come to think of it, I may have given you a copy of the book, too :-> (In any case, I'll check when I get home from work....)

[alphawench.livejournal.com]

I don't have either, but I'm volunteering to sing at Barleycorn if you need... NONE of the other Belles will be there but I can either do a sing-along type song or slap a group together thats just as bad as the Belles.

Or I could, you know, actually SING something for real.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

http://mixolydian.org/quire/a-ztitle.html

The lyrics are there.