The Squire of Great Renown

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Source: Coeur d'Ennui Letchers Guild Songbook Edited by William Coeur du Boeuf;
Note from Letchers Guild Songbook:
In the earliest known version it is a "friar" that is the "hero." This song goes back to the days when there was great disrespect for clerics who were not living up to their vows of chastitiy and poverty. A more modern verion has it: "His brother monks to stop his frolics/Put a nail through his cock/ ans cut off his bollocks./ (chorus) The old son, the sod,/The bugger deserved to die!" Incidentally, this is not in PTPM

There was a Squire of great renown,
There was a Squire of great renown,
There was a Squire of great renown,
And he (KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) a girl from town!

He took her out behind the mill,
He took her out behind the mill,
He took her out behind the mill,
And, (KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) her up the hill!

He took her to his bachelors bed,
He took her to his bachelors bed,
He took her to his bachelors bed,
And, (KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) 'till she was dead!

And when the bells rang out "Amen,"
And when the bells rang out "Amen,"
And when the bells rang out "Amen,"
He (KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) her to life again!

And now the moral I will tell,
And now the moral I will tell,
When all the world seems bleak and fell,
Just (KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK) 'till all is well!

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