Songs and Lyrics

Version 1

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T:A Smuggler's Song
C:Rudyard Kipling (poem)
C:Peter Bellamy (tune)
C:Tim Laycock (tune)
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w:If you wake at mid-night and hear a hor - ses feet Don't go
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w:draw-ing back the blind or - look-ing in - the street
G B d d | d2 B2 | e G G A | (F G/2F/2 E) F | 
w:Them that asks no ques-tions is-n't told a lie. - - - Go
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W:If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
W:Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
W:Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
W:Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by. 
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W:2
W:Five and twenty ponies, 
W:Trotting through the dark - 
W:Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
W:Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
W:Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by! 
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W:3
W:Running round the woodlump if you chance to find 
W:Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
W:Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
W:Put the brishwood back again - and they'll be gone next day ! 
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W:4
W:If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
W:If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
W:If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
W:If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more ! 
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W:5
W:If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
W:You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
W:If they call you " pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin,
W:Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been ! 
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W:6
W:Knocks and footsteps round the house - whistles after dark -
W:You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
W:Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie
W:They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by ! 
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W:7
W:'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
W:You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
W:With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood - 
W:A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being  good ! 
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W:8
W:Five and twenty ponies, 
W:Trotting through the dark - 
W:Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
W:Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie - 
W:Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by !

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Song by Rudyard Kipling and Peter Bellamy and Tim Laycock

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