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Thread #156185   Message #3680982
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
29-Nov-14 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Chord Req: Chord & Tune Request for Meg of Wapping
Subject: RE: Chord Req: Chord & Tune Request for Meg of Wapping
Thanks, Joe.

If I were doing this song for people, I would folk-process this line:

"For she married six husbands and buried them all"

right out of the song. The song has a happy tune, and it's about how nifty Meg of Wapping is. Keeping with that theme, I like it this way:

"She'd shine at the play, and she'd jig at the ball
All rigged out so gay and so topping;
With ribbons and laces and roses and all
Pull away, pull away, I say;
What d'ye think of my Meg of Wapping?

This tune would make a nice flute (or similar) and guitar duet for the family this Christmas.