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Thread #41137   Message #592543
Posted By: Charley Noble
14-Nov-01 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Blind Man's Song
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BLIND MAN'S SONG
Apparently this song is not in in the DT. At least I can't find it so I'll add it here, without the tune:

THE BLIND MAN'S SONG
(Anatole France)

(Original words in French by Anatole France, translated by Curtis Hidden Page, new tune by Howie Mitchell, as sung by Howie Mitchell and Ed Trickett on The Golden Ring, Folk Legacy Records FSI-16 © 1964)

There's lots of good fish in the sea,
La de ray, la de ray,
Now who will go and fish with me?
La de ray, la de ray;
Now who'll with me a-fishing go,
My dainty, dainty damsel-o?
Come fish with me the livelong day,
And who will then be caught? We'll see,
La de ray, de ray, de ray.

Along the rippling river's bank,
La de ray, la de ray,
Along the wimpling water's bank,
La de ray, la de ray,
Along the banks so shady-o,
I met the miller's lady-o,
And danced with her the livelong day,
And, oh, I danced my heart away,
La de ray, de ray, de ray.