X-Git-Url: https://defaria.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=BlueGrass%2FRagtime%20Annie.pro;fp=BlueGrass%2FRagtime%20Annie.pro;h=ded35d079bfa660cc4657dd9ac7098bacc801790;hb=95b90d34956e99c824d2bfa1ddb55c5d00b3579e;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=3b2f7746eba839320adb6f5545c25569657f0029;p=songbook.git diff --git a/BlueGrass/Ragtime Annie.pro b/BlueGrass/Ragtime Annie.pro new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ded35d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/BlueGrass/Ragtime Annie.pro @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +{title: Ragtime Annie} +{subtitle: Traditional} + +The night that I was married and in my married bed +Up comes the bold sea captain and stands at my bed head +Saying 'arise, arise, young wedded man and come along with me +To the Lowlands of Holland for to fight the enemy' + +Oh, Holland is a lovely land and in it grows fine grain +It is a place of residence for soldiers to remain +Where the sugar cane grows plentiful and the tea grows on each tree +I never had but the one sweetheart and she's far away from me + +Says the mother to the daughter 'leave off your sore lament +There's men enough in Galway to be your heart's content' +'There's men enough in Galway, but alas there's none for me +Since the high winds and the stormy seas have parted my love and me' + +'I'll wear no stays around my waist, no combs all in my hair +No handkerchief around my neck, to shade my beauty fair +And neither will I marry until the day I die +Since the high winds and the stormy seas have parted my love and I'