{"id":9779,"date":"2024-11-01T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2024-11-01T07:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:58:50","slug":"vicar-of-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9779","title":{"rendered":"Vicar of Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Vicar.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Vicar.mp3\"><br \/>\nVicar of Bray &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\"> This is an 18th century satirical song about a clergyman staying in power no matter who was king.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Vicar_of_Bray_(song)\">Here is a detailed annotation of the lyrics:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>[D] In good King [A] Charles&#8217; [D] golden [A] days, [D] when loyalty no [A] harm [D] meant,<br \/>\n[D] A zealous [A] high [D] churchman was [A] I, [D] and so I gained [A] preferment.<br \/>\n[A] To teach my flock, [D] I never missed<br \/>\n[A] Kings are by God [D] appointed<br \/>\nAnd damned be [A] he who [D] dare [A] resist or touch the Lord&#8217;s [A] annointed. [D]<\/p>\n<p>[A] And this be law, I [D] shall maintain<br \/>\n[A] Until my dying [D] day, sir<br \/>\nThat [D] what &#8211; [A]soever [D] king may [A] reign,<br \/>\n[D] Still I&#8217;ll be the Vicar of [A] Bray, [D] sir.<\/p>\n<p>When royal James usurped the throne, and popery came in fashion,<br \/>\nThe penal laws I hooted down, and read the Declaration.<br \/>\nThe Church of Rome, I found, did fit<br \/>\nFull well my constitution<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;d have been a Jesuit, but for the Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>cho:<\/p>\n<p>When William was our King declared, to ease the nation&#8217;s grievance,<br \/>\nWith this new wind about I steered, and swore to him allegiance.<br \/>\nOld principles I did revoke<br \/>\nSet conscience at a distance,<br \/>\nPassive obedience was a joke, a jest was non-resistance.<\/p>\n<p>cho:<\/p>\n<p>When Royal Anne became our queen, the Church of England&#8217;s glory,<br \/>\nAnother face of things was seen, and I became a Tory.<br \/>\nOccasional conformists base<br \/>\nI blamed their moderation;<br \/>\nAnd thought the Church in danger was from such prevarication.<\/p>\n<p>cho:<\/p>\n<p>When George in pudding time came o&#8217;er, and moderate men looked big, sir<br \/>\nMy principles I changed once more, and I became a Whig, sir.<br \/>\nAnd thus preferment I procured<br \/>\nFrom our new Faith&#8217;s Defender,<br \/>\nAnd almost every day abjured the Pope and the Pretender.<\/p>\n<p>cho:<\/p>\n<p>The illustrious house of Hanover and Protestant succession<br \/>\nTo these I do allegiance swear &#8212; while they can hold possession.<br \/>\nFor in my faith and loyalty<br \/>\nI never more will falter,<br \/>\nAnd George my lawful king shall be &#8212; until the times do alter.<\/p>\n<p>cho:\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Vicar of Bray &#8211; Click To Play This is an 18th century satirical song about a clergyman staying in power no matter who was king. Here is a detailed annotation of the lyrics: Lyrics: [D] In good King [A] Charles&#8217; [D] golden [A] days, [D] when loyalty no [A] harm [D] meant, [D] A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vicar of Bray&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-irishbritish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}