Key: B major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
a- shepherding has gone
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Right over the tops of the downs,
downs,
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Right over the tops of the downs.
Verse 2
of gentlemen
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And one of them has lighted down
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And he's asked of her the way,
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way,
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And he's asked of her the way.
Verse 3
on, you rank riders
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For it's out of the fold I will not go
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For fear you do me wrong, wrong,
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For fear you do me wrong."
Verse 4
by the middle jimp
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And there he's had his will of her
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And he's asked of her no leave, leave,
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And he's asked of her no leave.
Verse 5
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on
his berry brown steed,
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"Oh, master, you tarried long, long,
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Oh, master, you tarried long."
Verse 6
east and I've ridden east,
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She was calling her sheep to the fold,
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fold."
Verse 7
milk pail on her head
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And all her father said to her
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Was, "Daughter, you tarried long, long,
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Oh, daughter, you tarried long."
Verse 8
your shepherd, father,
at the back of the down
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And the fox has frightened me, me,
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And the fox has frightened me."
Verse 9
to the fold door
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Oh, I'd rather he'd taken them all,
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all."
Verse 10
gone and past,
fret and to frown
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And to long for the twinkling eye,
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And to long for the twinkling eye.
Interlude 1
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Now it
Verse 11
fell on a day,
on a bonnie summer's day
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Come a- riding over the down, down,
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Come a- riding over the down.
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"Who
Verse 12
got the babe with thee,
Bonny May,
and aye, she said,
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"Oh, I've a good man of my own,
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own."
Verse 13
Bonny May,
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Remember the misty murky night
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I lay in the fold with thee, thee,
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I lay in the fold with thee.
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Now he's
Verse 14
mounted off his
berry brown steed,
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She'll ne'er call them again,
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again,
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She'll ne'er call them again."
Verse 15
plough of land,
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And he's taken away the bonniest lass
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In all the South country, country,
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In all the South country.
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