Wow.... it sounds like moving to the New World is like Showbiz.... Timing is everything.

I don't think I have the music to Lusty Gallant, but it sounds like something that may be on my CD of English National Songs, that I cannot seem to find.  Roast Beef of Olde England is another one it, which laments how the English had grown timid and it was NOT LIKE THE GOOD OLD days...... and it was written in the early 1700s!

"When good Queen Elizabeth sat on the throne,
  ere coffee and tea and such slip-slops were known....
The world it did tremble, when' ere she did frown.....

Oh the Roast Beef of Olde England...... And Oh for Old Englands' Roast Beef"

I bet 'it never was like it was' though :))

Randy Cabell
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emily Rose" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 7:37 AM
Subject: Jamestown ( was "northern bias")


> For those wondering about the "Starving Time" in Jamestown, see
> 
> "Tree-ring data from Virginia indicate that the Lost Colony of Roanoke
> Island disappeared during the most extreme drought in 800 years (1587-1589)
> and that the alarming mortality and the near abandonment of Jamestown colony
> occurred during the driest 7-year episode in 770 years (1606-1612). These
> extraordinary droughts can now be implicated in the fate of the Lost Colony
> and in the appalling death rate during the early occupations at
> Jamestown,the first permanent English settlement in America."
> [Stahle, David W., Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Dennis B. Blanton, Mathew D.
> Therrell, and David A. Gay. "-the Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts."
> Science 280, no. April 24 (1998): 564-67.]
> 
> Great picture of tree-rings analysis that shows the drought!!
> 
> Also, Randy, Do you by any chance have the ballad music sung to  "lusty
> gallant"  to which "London live thou famous long" was sung?
> 
> Emily Rose
> Cambridge University
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