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Thread #114888 Message #2461655
Posted By: Sky Sailor
09-Oct-08 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Songbook - Folk Songs Of Lancashire
Subject: Tune/Lyr ics ADD: Turpin Hero
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R:Folk Song
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O:England
A:Lancashire
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B:Folk Songs Of Lancashire
N:Mike Harding
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Turpin Hero
As Dick was ridin' a — cross the moor
He saw a lawyer a long way before.
He rode up to him and he this did say
"Have you seen Dick Turpin a long this way?"
CHORUS
Hi, ho, me Turpin he ro, Here's our Jolly Dick Turpin oh!
"Oh, no" said the lawyer "I this can say
I've not seen Turpin for many a day,
For if that I did there'd be no doubt
He'd turn me pockets inside out".
"Well", said Dick "I've proved I'm shrewd
For I've hid me brass down in me boots".
"Oh", said the lawyer, "he shan't have mine,
For I've hid it in the pocket of me cape behind."
Well they rode till they came to Foster's Mill
Where Turpin tells him to stand still
"Your top coat cape it must come off
For Bonny Black Bess wants a new saddle cloth!
"But don't you fret though I've got your store
For as you're a lawyer you can lie for more.
And when they ask you where's your tin
You can say you was robbed by Dick Turpin."
As Dick rode over Saddleworth Moor
He saw Lord Judge in his coach and four
And hero like he did approach
And he robbed the judge as he sat in his coach.
Now Turpin's fate I will relate
For he is bound down to Newgate
And jolly Dick Turpin will rob no more
For he robbed the rich and not the poor.