Robbers' Retreat, The

DESCRIPTION: "Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry, For to rob bags of plunder it is our intent.... Then away, then away... To those caves in yonder mountains where the Robbers retreat.... Stand, stand and deliver, It is our watch-cry."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (Gundry-CanowKernow-SongsDancesFromCornwall)
KEYWORDS: robbery drink
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Gundry-CanowKernow-SongsDancesFromCornwall, p. 60, "The Robbers' Retreat - The Cadgwith Anthem" (1 short text,1 tune)
Roud #3314
File: Gund060

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