Lucretia's Song Lyrics

[mr47]

Huelwen Lucretia, lady-minstrel, writes and performs songs, so I thought it'd be a good idea to write the lyrics down somewhere  so I can just keep recyclng the same one's over and over more easily  for the sake of posterity. There are songs that she sings but didn't write ICly, usually pre-existing irl folk songs (Scarborough Jelkala Fair, John Barleycorn, etc.), and I'm playing those as common Calradian folk-songs that everyone ICly would know, and that would obviously not be presumed to be hers. 

Here "Composing" means I take a vaguely-appropriate-to-the-time-period (earlier than the 18th century is all I'll promise) song and just slap my own lyrics onto it. I'll update the thread as songs get added.

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Mead for the Strong
Type: Drinking Song
Original: "Bache Bene Venies" (Latin, translation: "Welcome, Good Bacchus!"), from the Carmina Buarana, compiled between the 11th-13th centuries.
Tune (warning, catchy as fuck): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBWsnxe1l9w
Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Leave the Wine to Emper-ors!
Leave the Ale to Rho-doks!
Give the Mead to northern me-en,
whose heads are strong as ro-ocks!

Chorus:
Mead is golden, Mead is plenty,
Mead's a northman's pri-ize,
Makes a man as strong as twenty,
Spirited and wi-ise!

Verse 2: 
Hardened honey of the bee,
scion of it's sti-ings!
Give thralls barb to mock the free,
and curs to laugh at ki-ings!

Chorus x2

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