The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44304   Message #687025
Posted By: MMario
10-Apr-02 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Martha the Watercress Girl
Subject: Tune Add: THE WATERCRESS GIRL
N-THE WATERCRESS GIRL
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S-140
K-G
B-3/4
F-from Everyman's Book of British Ballads
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M-5R-2 D-4 D-2 D-4 G-2 a-4 b-4 b-2_b-2 b-4
L-One day I took a ram-ble down by a run-ning stream Where the wa-ter li-lies gam-bol it was a love-ly scene
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M-5a-2 G-4 a-4 b-2 G-3 R-2 G-8 G-8 G-2 G-4
L-And There I saw a maid-en, a maid-en from the dell; She was gath-'ring wa-ter-cress-es 'twas Mar-tha the wa-ter-cress girl.
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M-5a-2 G-4 D-4 b-2_b-2 b-4 b-2 a-4 a-2 b-4
L-Then her hair it hung in tress-es, Down by the stream that's close to the mill; She was gath-'ring wa-ter-cress-es, was Mar-tha
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M-5a-3_a-4 R-4 D-4 D-2 D-4 G-2 a-4 b-4 b-2
L-the wa-ter-cress girl.
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M-5R-2 b-4 a-2 G-4 a-2 b-4 G-3 R-2 G-8 G-8
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M-5G-2 G-4 F-2 E-4 D-4 b-2 R-2 b-4 D-4 F-4 a-4
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M-5D-4 F-4 a-4 G-3_G-4 R-4 b-8 c-8 d-2 c#4 c-2 G-4
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M-5b-4 b-2 a-4 G#4 a-4 b-2 a-4 G-4 F-5 E-8 D-2 G-8 b-8
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M-5d-2 c#4 c-2 G-4 b-4 b-2 R-2 G-4 a-4 c-4 b-4
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M-2a-5 E-8 F-4 G-2 R-4
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