- Listen to me and you shall hear,
News hath not been this thousand year:
Since Herod, Caesar, and many more,
You never heard the like before.
Holy-days are despised,
New fashions are devised,
Old Christmas is kicked out of Town.
Chorus:
Yet let's be content, and the times lament
You see the world turned upside down.
- The wise men did rejoice to see
Our Savior Christ's Nativity:
The Angels did good tidings bring,
The Shepherds did rejoice and sing.
Let all honest men
Take example by them.
Why should we from good Laws be bound?
- Command is given, we must obey,
And quite forget old Christmas day:
Kill a thousand men, or a town regain,
We will give thanks and praise amain.
The wine pot shall clink,
We will feast and drink.
And then strange motions will abound.
- Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too,
Do mean old fashions to forego:
They set a porter at the gate,
That none must enter in there at.
They count it a sin,
When poor people come in.
Hospitality itself is drowned.
- The serving men do sit and whine,
And think it long ere dinner time:
The Butler's still out of the way,
Or else my Lady keeps the key.
The poor old cook
In the larder doth look,
Where is no goodness to be found.
- To conclude, I'll tell you news that's right,
Christmas was killed at Naseby fight:
Charity was slain at the same time,
Jack Tell-truth at that same time,
Likewise then did die,
Roast beef and shred pie,
Pig, Goose and Capon no quarter found.
Final Chorus:
Yet let's be content and the times lament,
You see the world is quite turned round.
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