Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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At the edge of
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the graveyard the birch has grown tall
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Moss has crept high up
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It's many a year now
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that is the stone
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Has fallen since I left my home
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It's many years the year now
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But still I recall
Every
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Saturday evening
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The lasses were handsome
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The lads were half tight
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As we danced through the long
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summer's night
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There was
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Billy on clarinet,
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Jack played the drum,
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Peter the fiddler and his young son
Tom
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Tommy could whip up a
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wind from the moor
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That would rattle your old
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cottage door
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Blow out the light,
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watch his finger -ends burn
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They said that he went to the
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crossroads to learn
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They said that the old lad
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taught him his tunes
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By the light of a dozen full
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moons
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Now we were all lads in our
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Playing a truant and playing a fool
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Most of that springtime
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we passed in a dream
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At peace on the banks of the stream
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The morning was green,
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the morning was still
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van came up the hill
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We lay in the long grass,
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watched them amazed
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As they put out their horses
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to graze
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There seemed to be no
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more than two in the van
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A girl in a cloak and a tall bearded man
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And the girl's hair was black
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as an old standing stone
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But her skin was as white as a bow
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Tommy, he looked at her
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Oh, she must have caused
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something inside him to stir
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For he picked up his fiddle,
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started to play a tune
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To change night into day
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It's well, I remember the first day of
May
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The hall was crowded,
And
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Tommy was up on the
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stage with the rest
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down in the west
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Blacker than midnight, still as the two
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The gypsies were there
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at the end of the room
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And then the young woman
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And she slowly walked up to the band
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As she pulled out her fiddle
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cloak
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And the tune that she played
delight
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A tune to change day into night
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Like a ghost in a dream, young
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Tommy joined in
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With a wave of her hand,
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And she led him on down to
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the end of the room
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And out to the trees and
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the gloom
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Next day, at the crossroads,
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Splinters and wires on
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the grey mossy ground
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Some said it was love had
borne him away
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Others would rather not say
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The very same morning, I left that dark land I left them their sheep,
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I left them to follow
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And I haven't been back
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till this day
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At the edge of the graveyard
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the birch is growing tall
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Moss has crept high up
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It's many a year now,
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many's the stone has fallen since I left my home
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It's many years a year now,
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but still I recall
Every
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Saturday evening the dance in the hall
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us lads were hot -tot
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As we danced through the long summer's night
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