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A Melancholy Lay Lyrics by Richard Rodney Bennett

A Garland for Marjory Fleming

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Three Turkeys fair their last have breathed
And now this worled for ever leaved
Their father and their mother too
Will sigh and weep as well as you
Mourning for their offspring fair
Whom they did nurse with tender care
Indeed the rats their bones have cranch'd
To Eternity are they launched
Their graceful form and pretty eyes
Their fellow fowls did not despise
A direful death indeed they had
That would put any parent mad
But shе was more than usual calm
She did not give a singlе dam
Here ends this melancholy lay
Farewell poor turkeys I must say
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Richard Rodney Bennett

Richard Rodney Bennett

About “A Melancholy Lay” by Richard Rodney Bennett

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"A Melancholy Lay" appears on "A Garland for Marjory Fleming".

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