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traditional english folk - the vicar of bray lyrics

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[verse 1]
in good king charles’s golden days
when loyalty no harm meant;
a zealous high+church man i was
and so i gain’d preferment
unto my flock i daily preach’d
kings are by god appointed
and d+mn’d are those who dare resist
or touch the lord’s anointed

[chorus]
and this is law i will maintain
unto my dying day, sir
that whatsoever king may reign
i will be the vicar of bray, sir!
[verse 2]
when royal james possessed the crown
and popery grew in fashion;
the penal law i shouted down
and read the declaration
the church of rome i found would fit
full well my constitution
and i had been a jesuit
but for the revolution

[chorus]
and this is law i will maintain
unto my dying day, sir
that whatsoevеr king may reign
i will be the vicar of bray, sir!

[verse 3]
whеn william our deliverer came
to heal the nation’s grievance
i turned the cat in pan again
and swore to him allegiance
old principles i did revoke
set conscience at a distance
passive obedience is a joke
a jest is non+resistance
[chorus]
and this is law i will maintain
unto my dying day, sir
that whatsoever king may reign
i will be the vicar of bray, sir!

[verse 4]
when royal anne became our queen
then church of england’s glory
another face of things was seen
and i became a tory
occasional conformists base
i d+mn’d, and moderation
and thought the church in danger was
from such prevarication

[chorus]
and this is law i will maintain
unto my dying day, sir
that whatsoever king may reign
i will be the vicar of bray, sir!

[verse 5]
when george in pudding time came o’er
and moderate men looked big, sir
my principles i changed once more
and so became a whig, sir
and thus preferment i procured
from our faith’s great defender
and almost every day abjured
the pope, and the pretender
[chorus]
and this is law i will maintain
unto my dying day, sir
that whatsoever king may reign
i will be the vicar of bray, sir!

[verse 6]
the ill+strious house of hanover,18
and protestant succession
to these i l+stily will swear
whilst they can keep possession:
for in my faith, and loyalty
i never once will falter
but george, my lawful king shall be
except the times should alter

[chorus]
and this is law i will maintain
unto my dying day, sir
that whatsoever king may reign
i will be the vicar of bray, sir!

- traditional english folk lyrics

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