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Thread #34358   Message #464566
Posted By: Snuffy
17-May-01 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Hand-Loom Weaver's Lament
Subject: Tune add: THE HANDLOOM WEAVER'S LAMENT
I had forgotten that Boardman also included 'Handloom Weaver's Lament' in 'Folk Songs and Ballads of Lancashire'. The words there are as posted by Mmario (but on the recording he omits the verse beinning "With the choicest ...").

Here is an ABC made from the dots in Boardman's book

X:1
T:The Handloom Weaver's Lament
C:Tune Arranged by Harry Boardman. © Maypole Music 1972
B:Folk Songs and Ballads of Lancashire. ISBN 0 86001 027 9
M:C|
L:1/4
K:G
zD|
DG GG|G2 FG|A>A AA|A3 D|
BB BG|cc cc|BG AF|G3 G|
DG GG|G2 FG|AA AA|D3 D|
B>B BG|cc cA|BG AF|G2||
%CHORUS
B2|
D2 GG|G2 FG|AA AA|D3 D|
BB BG|cc c>A|BG AF|G2||

Wassail! V