I'm a member of the community choir North Shore Chorus, and our spring programme is based on the works of Shakespeare and other English Renaissance poetry. "In Windsor Forest" is a suite of 5 songs by Ralph Vaughn Williams, based on Shakespeare's works. I'm only listing the songs I think are power songs for now.
Drinking Song ("Back and Side Go Bare")
Area Effect: Falling Down Drunk.
Wedding Chorus ("See the Chariot at Hand") (this recording has some really horrid audio artifacts, but the performance marred by them is quite excellent)
Power: Makes target woman supernaturally attractive (as in, "cause accidents walking down the street" attractive).
Other potential powersongs from our programme follow:
The Stephen Chatman setting of "Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind", from Shakespeare's play As You Like It (not giving a link because the only version I could find on YouTube was rather poorly done)
Power: gives Doug a freezing breath weapon.
Possibly more to follow.
Drinking Song ("Back and Side Go Bare")
Quote:Back and Side go bare, go bare,
Both Foot and Hand go cold,
But Belly, God send thee good Ale enough,
Whether it be new or old!
I cannot eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood!
Though I go bare, take ye no care;
I am nothing a' cold;
I stuff my skin so full within
Of jolly good ale and old!
I love no roast but a nut-brown toast
And a crab laid in the fire;
A little bread shall do me stead,
Much bread I not desire.
No frost nor snow, no wind, I trow,
Can hurt me if I would,
I am so wrapt, and throughly lapt
Of jolly good ale and old.
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
And Tib my wife, that as her life
Loveth well good ale to seek,
Full oft drinks she, till ye may see
The tears run down her cheek.
Then doth she troll to me the bowl,
Even as a maltworm should;
And saith,"Sweetheart, I took my part
Of this jolly good ale and old."
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
Now let them drink, till they nod and wink,
Even as good fellows should do;
They shall not miss to have the bliss
Good ale doth bring men to.
And all poor souls that have scoured bowls,
Or have them lustily troll'd,
God save the lives of them and their wives,
Whether they be young or old.
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
Area Effect: Falling Down Drunk.
Wedding Chorus ("See the Chariot at Hand") (this recording has some really horrid audio artifacts, but the performance marred by them is quite excellent)
Quote:See the chariot at hand here of love
Wherein my lady rideth.
Each that draws is a swan or a dove,
And well the car Love guideth;
As she goes all hearts do duty
Unto her beauty;
And enamoured do wish, so they might
But enjoy such a sight,
That they still were to run by her side
Through swords, through seas whither she would ride.
Do but look on her eyes,
They do light all that Love's world compriseth.
Do but look on her hair,
It is bright as Love's star when it riseth.
Do but mark, her forehead's smoother
Than words that soothe her;
And from her arched brows such a grace
Sheds itself through the face,
As alone there triumphs to the life,
All the gain, all the good of the elements' strife.
Have you seen but a bright lily grow
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall of the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?
Have you felt the wool of the beaver
Or swan's down ever?
Or have smelt of the bud of the brier
Or the nard in the fire?
Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Power: Makes target woman supernaturally attractive (as in, "cause accidents walking down the street" attractive).
Other potential powersongs from our programme follow:
The Stephen Chatman setting of "Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind", from Shakespeare's play As You Like It (not giving a link because the only version I could find on YouTube was rather poorly done)
Quote:Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most freindship if feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Power: gives Doug a freezing breath weapon.
Possibly more to follow.
