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Singing The Travels by Maddy Prior & June Tabor
Singing The Travels
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:D
Capo:no capo
[Verse]
D A D A E
Well met, my brothers dear, all along the highway riding, so solemn I was walking along
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So pray come tell to me what calling yours may be, and I'll have you for a servantman
[Verse]
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Some servingmen do eat the very best of meat, such as cock, goose, capon and swan
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But when lords and ladies dine, they drink strong beer, ale and wine - that's some diet for a servantman
[Verse]
D A D A E
Don't you talk about your capons, let's have some rusty bacon and aye, a good piece of pickled pork
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That's always in my house, a crust of bread and cheese that's some diet for a husbandman
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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When next to church they go with their livery fine and gay and their cocked hats and gold lace all around
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With their shirts as white as milk, and stitched as fine as silk, that's some habit for a servantman
[Verse]
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Don't you talk about your livery nor all your silken garments, that's not fit for to travel the bushes in
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Give me my leather coat, aye, and in my purse a groat, that's some habit for a husbandman
[Verse]
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So me must needs confess that your calling is the best and will give you the uppermost hand
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So now we won't delay but pray both night and day, God bless the honest husbandman
[Outro]
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