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T:Come Lasses And Lads
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O:England
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w:Come, las-ses and lads, get leave or your dads, and aw-ay to the may-pole hie - For
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w:ev-ry fair - has a sweet-heart there, and the fidd -ler's stand-ing by - For
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w:Wil-ly shall dance with Jane - and Joh-nny has got his Joan -- To
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w:trip it, trip it, trip - it, trip it, trip - it up and down To -
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W:Come, lasses and lads, get leave or your dads, and away to the maypole hie,  
W:For ev'ry fair has a sweetheart there, and the fiddler's standing by;  
W:For Willy shall dance with Jane, and Johnny has got his Joan,  
W:To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it up and down,  
W:To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it up and down. 
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W:Begin! says Hal; "0 yes!" says Moll, "We'll lead up Packington's Pound."  
W:"Do, do!" says Jess; "No, no!" says Bess, 'We'll first have Sellenger's Round!"  
W:Then every lad did take His hat off to his lass  
W:And ev'ry girl did curtsey, curtsey, curtsey on the grass,   
W:And ev'ry girl did curtsey, curtsey, curtsey on the grass. 
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W:You're out! says Dick; "Not I," says Nick. "'Twas the fiddler played it wrong."  
W:"'Tis true!" says Hugh, and so says Sue, and so says ev'ry one.   
W:The fiddler then began To play the tune again,   
W:And ev'ry girl did trip it, trip it, trip it to the men,   
W:And ev'ry girl did trip it, trip it, trip it to the men. 
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W: Now they did stay the whole of the day, and tired the fiddler quite  
W:With dance and play, without any pay, from morning unto night  
W:They told the fiddler then They'd pay him for his play,  
W:And each a twopence, twopence, twopence gave him and went away,  
W:And each a twopence, twopence, twopence gave him and went away. 
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W:Goodnight! says Harry; "Goodnight!" says Mary; "Goodnight!" says Poll to John,  
W:Goodnight! says Sue to her sweetheart Hugh, "Goodnight!" says ev'ryone.  
W:Some walked and some did run; some loitered on the way,  
W:And bound themselves by kisses twelve, to meet the next holiday,  
W:And bound themselves by kisses twelve, to meet the next holiday

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