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24 Jul 03 - 08:14 AM (#989420) Subject: Lyr Req: Peter Bellamy's Yarmouth Town From: Roberto I'd like to get the text of Yarmouth Town exactly as sung by Peter Bellamy (in Won't You Go My Way and in the Free Reed anthology Wake the Vaulted Echoes). Here are the lyrics as I can get them. Please, help me to correct them. Thank you. Roberto In Yarmouth Town there lived a man, he kept a tavern by the strand (sand?) This landlord had a daughter fair, a pretty (??) little thing with the golden hair Well, won't you come down Won't you come down Won't you come down To Yarmouth town? Now to this tavern come a sailorman, he asked the daughter for her hand Why should I marry you? - She said - I get all I want without being wed But –she says- if you want with me to linger, I'll tie a piece of string all around my finger As you pass by, just pull the old string, and I'll come down and I'll let you in At closing time the sailorman he went to the tavern by the strand (sand?) And then he went and he pulled the old string, and she come down and she let him in Well, he's never seen such a sight before, 'cause the string around the finger was (were?) all she wore And when he went and he pulled the old string, she pulled up (?) the blanket and let Jack in So, the sailor stayed the whole night through and early in the morning went back to the crew Where he told them all about that maiden fair, the pretty (???) little thing with the golden hair And the story, that soon got around, and the very next night in Yarmouth town There was fifteen sailors pulling on the string, and she come down and she let them all in So all you young men who (?) to Yarmouth do go, if you see (?????) a little girl with the hair hung low Well, all you got do is to pull the old string and she'll come down and she'll let you all in |
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24 Jul 03 - 08:17 AM (#989423) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter Bellamy's Yarmouth Town From: GUEST I don't know about Bellamy as I've never heard him - but everyone I know does sing 'strand' not 'sand' |
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24 Jul 03 - 01:19 PM (#989725) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter Bellamy's Yarmouth Town From: Leadfingers And if you want the dialect right dont pronounce the 'W' in Wont. 'Ont you come down to Yarmouth town' |
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24 Jul 03 - 03:32 PM (#989849) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter Bellamy's Yarmouth Town From: Wolfgang pretty strand was see that's how I hear it. Wolfgang |
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24 Jul 03 - 03:45 PM (#989860) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter Bellamy's Yarmouth Town From: GUEST,MCP The Vaulted Echoes version has: 1: sand, plump 3: bit of string not piece of string 4: sand 5: were, back 6: his crew not the crew 8: what down not who see a plump not if you see Mick |
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25 Jul 03 - 07:36 AM (#990318) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter Bellamy's Yarmouth Town From: Roberto Thank you all for your help. I think that Mick's markings have the final word, and I have Yarmouth Town as sung by Peter Bellamy. Roberto |