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The Text is from Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia the only text that has come down to us of a 'three man's song' which achieved extraordinary popularity during' the seventeenth century	A
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The Story 'Good King John of France' is presumed to be John II who was taken prisoner at the battle of Poictiers and died in But the earliest literary reference to this ballad occurs in the play of Gammar Gurton's Needle acted in where the song 'I cannot eat but little meat' is to be sung 'to the tune of John Dory ' From Carew's Survey of Cornwall we learn a little more 'Moreover the prowess of one Nicholas son to a widow near Foy Fowey is descanted upon in an old three man's song namely how he fought bravely at sea with John Dory a Genowey as I conjecture set forth by John the French king and after much bloodshed on both sides took and slew him in revenge of the great ravine and cruelty which he had fore committed upon the Englishmen's goods and bodies '	-
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JOHN DORY	A
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As it fell on a holy day	B
And upon a holy tide a	C
John Dory bought him an ambling nag	D
To Paris for to ride a	C
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And when John Dory to Paris was come	E
A little before the gate a	C
John Dory was fitted the porter was witted	F
To let him in thereat a	C
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The first man that John Dory did meet	G
Was good king John of France a	C
John Dory could well of his courtesie	H
But fell down in a trance a	C
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'A pardon a pardon my liege and my king	I
For my merry men and for me a	C
And all the churles in merry England	J
I'll bring them all bound to thee a '	-
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And Nicholl was then a Cornish man	K
A little beside Bohide a	C
And he manned forth a good black bark	L
With fifty good oars on a side a	C
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'Run up my boy unto the main top	M
And look what thou canst spy a '	-
'Who ho who ho a goodly ship I do see	H
I trow it be John Dory a '	-
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They hoist their sails both top and top	M
The mizzen and all was tried a	C
And every man stood to his lot	N
What ever should betide a	C
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The roaring cannons then were plied	O
And dub a dub went the drum a	C
The braying trumpets loud they cried	O
To courage both all and some a	C
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The grappling hooks were brought at length	P
The brown bill and the sword a	C
John Dory at length for all his strength	P
Was clapped fast under board a	C

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