Come, Lasses and Lads - Trad.

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 23 Dec 2002

Come, lasses and lads,
get leave of your dads,
and away to the maypole hie,
for ev'ry 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.

"Begin!" says Hal;
"Oh yes!" says Mol,
"We'll lead up Packington Pound!"
"Do do!" says Jess;
"No, no!" says Bess,
"We'll first have Sellenger's Round!"
Then ev'ry lad did take
his hat off to his lass,
and ev'ry girl did curtsey, curtsey,
curtsey on the grass.
And ev'ry girl did curtsey, curtsey,
curtsey on the grass.

"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 ev'ryone.
The fiddler then began
to play the tune again,
and ev'ry girl did trip it, trip it,
Trip it to the men.
and ev'ry girl did trip it, trip it,
Trip it to the men.

Now there they did stay
the whole of the day,
and tired the fiddler quite,
with dance and play,
without any pay,
from morning unto night.
They told the fiddler then
they'd pay him for his play,
and each a twopence, twopence, twopence,
gave him and went away.
And each a twopence, twopence, twopence,
gave him and went away.

"Goodnight!" says Harry;
"Goodnight!" says Mary;
"Goodnight!" says Poll to John.
"Goodnight!" says Sue
to her sweetheart, Hugh,
"Goodnight!" says ev'ryone.
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.

Soft karaoke
Words
str 25
str 50
str 110
fr hrn 60
fiddle
pizz str
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Come, Lasses and Lads - Trad.
English Air
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Monday 23 December 2002 at 13.56
in association with Doug Grierson
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