A gallant crew, stir up the fire.
A #Christmas #ballad from the #Royalist news sheet Mercurius Democritus, 22 December 1652.
Printed during the Interregnum, when Christmas was officially banned. [It can be sung to the tune of Prince Rupert's March.]
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