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T:Ashton Famine Song
R:Folk Song
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O:England
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B:Folk Songs Of Lancashire
N:Mike Harding
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Ashton Famine Song
We have come to ask for assistance
For at home we've been starving too long
And our children are wanting subsistence
Kindly aid us to help them along.

CHORUS
For humanity it is calling
Don't let the cry be in vain
But aid us we're needy and falling
And God will return it again.

No strike but a greater contention
Has brought us to hunger and pain
And our laws they oppose intervention
So help us and honour you will gain.

War's clamour and civil commotion
Stagnation has brought in its train
And stoppage brings with it starvation
So help us some bread to obtain.

The American war is still lasting,
Like a terrible nightmare it leans
On the breast of a country now fasting
For cotton, for work and for means.

Let us hope that the war will be ended
And the blockade be heard of no more
But peace and contentment be blended
On this and America's fair shore.