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Truro Agricultural Show by Misc Traditional/Ian Marshall


  Truro Agricultural Show


Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:F
Capo:5th fret

[Verse]
C           F       C
Ee-I-O and away we go
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To Truro Agricultural Show.
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Good people all who hear my voice,
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You now have reason to rejoice;
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For off to Truro we do go,
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To see the Agricultural Show.
 
[Chorus]
C                         F         C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
C              Dm C  G7     C
At Truro Agricultural Show.
 
[Verse]
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A motley group you will see there,
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Fat farmers and their wives so rare;
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Their bouncing daughters neat and clean,
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With a pork-pie hat and  crinoline.
 
[Chorus]
C                         F          C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
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At Truro Agricultural Show.
 
[Verse]
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From Newlyn East, St Columb, too,
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There’s hump-backed Jim and carroty Joe;
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And a special train upon the rail
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To bring all the prisioners from Bodmin Jail.
 
[Chorus]
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So don’t go kissing they girls you know
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At Truro Agricultural Show.
 
[Verse]
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They’ve got a band from Plymouth down,
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The best that ever was in the town;
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All the gentry will be there:
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It’s twice as pretty at Whitsun Fair.
 
[Chorus]
C                         F         C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
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At Truro Agricultural Show.
 
[Verse]
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There’s horses, ponies, cows and calves,
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Truro don’t do things by halves.
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Devon bulls, sheep, pigs and geese:
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You can see it all for a shilling apiece.
 
[Chorus]
C                         F          C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
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At Truro Agricultural Show
 
[Verse]
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There’s things up there that’ll make you laugh;
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There’s a three-legged bull and a nine-legged calf,
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Theres a queer old group from the USA
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Well you don’t get quality every day
 
[Chorus]
C                          F         C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
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At Truro Agricultural Show
 
[Verse]
 
C                 F         C
Now all around I hear them say,
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“We’ll see this show this very day;
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Rich and poor , high and low,
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At  Truro Agricultural Show.”
 
[Chorus]
C                          F         C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
C        Dm  C    G7    C
At Truro Agricultural Show
 
[Verse]
C                        F           C
I’m glad you’re come, I see you’re here;
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There’s folk that come from far and near:
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Rich and poor and high and low,
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At Truro Agricultural Show.
 
[Chorus]
C                          F         C
So don’t go kissing they girls you know
C        Dm  C    G7    C
At Truro Agricultural Show




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