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Thread #46931 Message #700390
Posted By: Jim Dixon
29-Apr-02 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: May Song (D Webber) and other May songs
Subject: Lyr Add: COME LASSES AND LADS
Copied from http://www.contemplator.com/tunebook/englmidi/lasslads.htm
COME LASSES AND LADS
Come, lasses and lads, get leave of your dads
And away to the maypole hie,
For every fair has a sweetheart there
And the fiddler's standing by,
For Willy shall dance with Jane
And Johnny has got his Joan,
To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it,
Trip it up and down.
To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it,
Trip it up and down.
"You're out!" says Dick. "Not I!" says Nick.
"'Twas the fiddler played it wrong."
"'Tis true!" says Hugh, and so says Sue
And so says everyone.
The fiddler then began
To play the tune again,
And every girl did trip, trip it, trip it to the men.
And every girl did trip, trip it, trip it to the men.
"Goodnight!" says Harry. "Goodnight!" says Mary.
"Goodnight!" says Paul to John.
"Goodnight!" says Sue to her sweetheart, Hugh.
"Goodnight!" says everyone.
Some walked and some did run.
Some loitered on the way,
And bound themselves, by kisses twelve, to meet the next holiday.
And bound themselves, by kisses twelve, to meet the next holiday.