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13 Jun 04 - 02:41 PM (#1206316) Subject: Lyr Add: My Eppie From: *#1 PEASANT* My Eppie Acomb, Fallowfield, and Wall lie within about two miles of each other, between Hexam and Chollerford."- Brockie There was five wives at Acomb, And fie wives at: Wa', And five wives at Fallowfield, That's fifteen o' them a'. The've drunken ale and brandy Till they are all fu', And I cannot get home to My Eppie I trow, My Eppie I trow. The Tyne Water's se deep, that I cannot wade through; And I've no horse to ride on My Eppie I trow, My Eppie I trow, My Eppie I trow, And I've no horse to ride to My Eppie I trow, In the Tyne I hev not a boat, Nor yet cou'd I row. In the Tyne I hev not a boat, Nor yet cou'd I row Across the deep water to My Eppie I trow, My Eppie I trow, My Eppie I trow, And I've no horse to ride to My Eppie I trow. -Bell's " Northern Bards," 1812. |