James Brooks
(1760 - 1809)

Life is a jest
(A.T.B.)
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146317 : Brooks : Life is a jest : sheet music
Catalogued as Choral - Secular (Bath Bristol and Somerset) (Glees and Catches)

From Brooks' second set of glees, printed in London and Bath, c.1798.
Lyrics: John Gay

Life is a jest and all things show it;
I thought so once, but now I know it.