GTP: Non sofre rewrite

Again, it's a virelai or estampie-like in form, so the tune for the refrain is also the second part of each verse's melody.  This is the first draft.

Refrain:
Ho-ly Ma-ry⁰ will suffer not
That her true-hearted pilgrims be put on the spot
She hears their prayers and she will answer them
For she does not abandon her own children¹

This is a story of Mary's blessing
Miracle done all at her command
Nine of her pilgrims were walking onward
Visit her shrine is what they had planned



Darkness did fall so they all found an inn
To take meat and some bread and some good red wine
Nine hearty suppers from landlord they asked
Then to rooms for to pray went the faithful nine

Nine hearty suppers is what they asked for
Nine hearty suppers he did provide
That's what he gave to the young serving girl
She saw the food and her eyes opened wide
There was so much on the platter she held
So much bread and the wine and the nine pork chops
Good pious pilgrims do love charity
So she stole a fat pork chop from right off the top

Nine pious pilgrims sat down to dinner
Broke their white bread and they passed their wine
But when they went for to share their pork chops
Eight on the plate they found, not their nine
So they all prayed to the Virgin so fair
Yes they prayed that she might help them in this thing
Asked that she send them another pork chop
That their dinner in full to her servants² she'd bring

Knock-knocking, rapping sound, where's it come from?
I think it's coming from that trunk there
Open the trunk very slowly, slowly
What could be making the knocking there?³
See, it's a pork chop all juicy and fat
That is dancing about inside of our trunk
It is a miracle, nobody doubt
To her shrine we will take it, to give the monks

So they didn't eat the pork chop sent them
Took it with them to the shrine instead
If Mary gave me a pork chop to eat
I think I'd eat it with wine and bread!
But to her shrine they did take that pork chop
To her shrine where it hangs on a silken thread
Now it's a famous and holy pork chop
And no one will dare eat it with wine or bread⁴

0 - Two notes each on "Ho-" and "Ma-"
1 - Emphasis is wrong on children; music goes chil-DREN instead of CHIL-dren
2 - This should be a one syllable word and/or the line needs a rewrite
3 - "There" rhymes with "there."  Something needs a rewrite, possibly involving "dare" or "scare"
4 - Reusing the rhyme here, although it is echoing the earlier line, I think to some effect