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Thread #8855   Message #105741
Posted By: Barbara
17-Aug-99 - 02:55 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Ambletown (Home Dearie Home)
Subject: Lyr Add: AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME)
I sure don't see it. Here's what I remember of the words (from the singing of Ed Trickett, I believe it's on The Telling Takes Me HOme, Folk Legacy and our friendly neighborhood old c...fogey will know)

AMBLETOWN

CHORUS:
It's home, dearie, home
Home I want to be
Home for to live in my own coun-ter-y
Where the oak and the ash
And the bonny rowan tree
Are all a growin' greener
In the north coun-ter-y
(And it's home, dearie, home)

Oh Amble is a fine town With ships out on the bay
And it's fain and very fain I'd be there myself today
It's wishing in my heart I was far away from here,
Sittin' in the parlor and courting with my dear, and it's..

A letter came today and somehow I cannot speak
And proud and happy tears are a-running down my cheeks
(2 lines missing)

if it be a girl, she will wear a diamond ring
and if it be a boy, he will live to serve the king
in his little.... ... ..... and his little coat of blue
He'll walk the quarterdeck like his daddy used to do, and it's...