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Thread #79881   Message #1450758
Posted By: Roberto
03-Apr-05 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lowlands of Holland (from Dave Burland)
Subject: Lyr Req: Dave Burland's Lowlands of Holland
Pleae, help me complete and correct this transcription. The Lowlands of Holland, as sung by Dave Burland, on Benchmark. No information about the source in the inner sleeve. Thanks. Roberto

New Holland is a barren place, in it there grows no grain
... habitation wherein for to remain
Where the sugar canes are plenty, the wine drops from the trees
The low low lands of Holland has twined my love and me

My love he built a bonny ship and set her on the sea
Four score twenty crewmen to keep her company
There's a score is lost, a score is drowned, there's a score is dead at sea
The low low lands of Holland has twined my love and me

So my love he built another ship and set her on the main
Four and twenty crewmen for to bring her home
But the raging seas began to roar, the wind began to rout
My love and then his bonny ship turned withershins about

Then shall not a quaff go on my head nor comb go through my hair
Burning coal nor candlelight shine in my bower more
Nor will I love another one until the day I die
The low low lands of Holland has twined my love and I

Hold your tongue, dear daughter, be stil and be content
There are more lads in Galloway, you need not so lament
There is none in Gallow, there's none at all for me
The low low lands of Holland has twined my love and me

New Holland is a barren place, in it there grows no grain
... habitation wherein for to remain
Where the sugar canes are plenty and the wine drops from the trees
The low low lands of Holland has twined my love and me