The Brisk Young Widow chords by The Young Tradition

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Verse 1
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In Chester town
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there lived a brisky young widow
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For beauty and fine clothes
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none could excel her
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She was proper stout and tall,
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her fin gers long and small
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She's a comely dame with all,
she's a brisky young widow
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A   lover soon there came,
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a   brisk young farmer,
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With his head turned up all around,
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thinking to gain her,
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My dear, for love of you,
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this wide world I'll go through,
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If you will but prove true,
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you shall wind a farmer.
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Says she, I'm not for you,
nor no such fellow,
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I'm for a lively land with
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lands and riches.
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It's not your hogs and yows
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can maintain fur bellows,
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My silk and satin clothes
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are only glory.
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Oh, madam,
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don't be coy for all your glory,
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For fear of another day and another story.
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If the world on you should frown,
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Your top -knot must come down,
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To a Lindsay Woolsey gown,
where is then your glory?
At last there came that way
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a  sooty collier
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With his hat bent down all round
he soon didn't gain her
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Where at  the farmer's sworn
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the wid ow's mazed
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I'm sure, oh, you'll never court no more
A brisky young window