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Thread #135217 Message #3085536
Posted By: Mary Humphreys
30-Jan-11 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs from the East Anglia fenlands
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs from the East Anglia fenlands
A song you would like is Fred Rooke's The Water in the Dyke, available on the Peter Kennedy Folktrax LP in C#House.
There are farmers a-living in the fens
which once was the floor of the sea
And it might very well be sea again
if the water in the dyke get free.
Chorus:
So beware of the hour that the captive power
of the water in the dyke get free. etc.