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Thread #174011 Message #4220806
Posted By: GUEST,Martin
13-Apr-25 - 06:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
Subject: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
I cannot find the lyrics to The Nightingale from the album "A Wench A Whale and a Pint of Good Ale" (1966), so I'm trying to transcribe them myself. In the last verse I can't catch the lyrics.
"This couple agreed to get married with speed, HIGH IN SIN, to the church they did go."
"High in scent" makes more sense as they had been rolling in the primroses, and the song if full of euphemisms and "in sin" sounds to direct and doesn't fit the tradition.
Can anyone work out those lyrics, or knows where they can be found?