Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
1 Boot, saddle, to horse and away!
2 Rescue my Castle, before the hot day
3 Brightens to blue from its silvery gray,
(Chorus)
4 Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
5 Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say;
6 Many's the friend there, will listen and pray
7 "God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay--
(Chorus)
8 Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
9 Forty miles off, like a roebuck at bay,
10 Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array:
11 Who laughs, "Good fellows ere this, by my fay,
(Chorus)
12 Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
13 Who? My wife Gertrude; that, honest and gay,
14 Laughs when you talk of surrendering, "Nay!
15 I've better counsellors; what counsel they?
(Chorus)
16 Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
