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T:All around my Hat
T:Three Coloured Ribbon
B:A Garland of Country Song, S Baring Gould and H Fleetwood Sheppard, 1895
S:H Fleetwood Sheppard
C:Trad
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G3 A2 F |G3 B2 c |d3 c2 B |(G2F) D3 |
w:All round my hat I will wear a green wil-*low, 
G3 A2 F |G3 B2 c |d2 d e2 c |(d4 d)
w:All round my hat for a twelve-month and a day: 
d |e2 c c2 e |d3 A2 B |c2 B d2 B |(G2F) D2
w:If an-y-bo-dy asks me the rea-son why I wear_ it, 
D |G2 G A2 F |G3 B2 c |d3 c2 B |(G3 G2)  |]
w:It's all be-cause my true love is far, far a-way.
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W:All round my hat, I will wear the green willow,
W:All round my hat for a twelvemonth and a day:
W:If anybody asks me the reason why I wear it,
W:Its all because my true love is far, far away.
W:
W:2
W:My love she was fair, and my love she was kind, too,
W:And many were the happy hours between my love and me;
W:I never could refuse her whatever she'd a mind to,
W:But now she's far away, far across the stormy sea.
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W:3
W:O will my love be true, and will my love be faithful?
W:Or will she find another swain to court her where she's gone?
W:The men will all run after her, so pretty and so graceful,
W:And perhaps she may forget me, lamenting all alone.
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W:4
W:So all round my hat I will wear a green willow,
W:All round my hat for a twelvemonth and a day:
W:And if anybody asks me the reason why I wear it.
W:Its all because my true love is far, far away.

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The Session: https://TheSession.org/tunes/24322
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Country of origin: England

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