cold and raw chords by June tabor

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Verse 1
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Cold and raw the
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North did blow
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Bleak in the morning early
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All the trees were hid in snow
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Dagl'd by winter yearly
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Gentleman riding o'er     the heather
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Met with a farmer's daughter
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Her rosy cheeks and her bonny brow
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They made his mouth to water

Verse 2
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Quickly he saluted me
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Meaning to shew his breeding
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I bowed to him right gracefully
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His courtesy exceeding
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He asked me where I went so soon
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And longed to begin a parley
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I told him, to the next market town
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A- purpose to sell me barley

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Verse 3

"In this purse, sweet girl," says he

"T wenty pounds lie fairly

Seek no further one to buy

For I'll take all your barley

Twenty more would buy delight

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Your body I love so dearly

If you would lay with me all night

And go home in the morning early"

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Verse 4
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"If twenty pounds could buy the globe
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It's this I'd never do, sir
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Or were me kin as poor as Job
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I would not raise 'em so, sir
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If I lay with you this night
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We'd get a young child together
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And you'd be gone ere
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the nine months end
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And where should I find a father?"

Verse 5
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He told me he had married been
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Fourteen years and longer
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Or else he'd take me for his own
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And tie the knot much stronger
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I bade him then, no further roam
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But manage his wedlock fairly
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And keep his gold for his
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wife at home
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And some other shall have my barley