Key: E minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
down your fiddle young Willie
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That the world has begun with
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the birth of the sun
Verse 2
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"Now kiss me young lover" cried
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"We're a village of babes and I'm
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"Where's all your fellas,
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Cried Willie who swam in
Verse 3
fiddle young Willie
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That the world has begun with
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the birth of the sun
Verse 4
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the fiddle brightly sung,
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its hornpipe playing
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It's a Londonderry tune,
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long gone's the afternoon
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We'll sing "ever and more
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and ever will be"
Verse 5
seen,
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Brought gold for the boy
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who could carry all time
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For they in dear guardian
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Ship wizened and aged in
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"It's not what I came
Verse 6
for,"
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cried Will with disdain for
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The din and the clamour
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of faucets undone
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Til a glimpse of perfection
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in Sally's reflection
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In a mirror that carried her
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light like the sun
Verse 7
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fiddle young Willie
Will you put down your fiddle
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That the world has begun with
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the birth of the sun
Verse 8
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The gentrified stock
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who had seen off the
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And laughed at the lad seeing all that he had
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And whispered their praise
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to the soul of his sword
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If Will had known
Verse 9
better,
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he'd not have known better
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And history's song would
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So it's lucky for learning
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Is not in repeating but
Verse 10
Willie (pick it up)
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For the world has begun
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with the birth of the sun
Verse 11
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the fiddle brightly sung,
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its hornpipe playing
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It's a Londonderry tune,
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We'll sing "ever and more and ever will
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be"
Outro 1
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