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w:On a Fri-day, it fell in the month of A-pril O'er the
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w:hill came the morn' with the blithe sun-ny smile And
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w:the folks were a-throng-ing the roads ev'ry-where Ma-king
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w:haste to be in at - Cop-shaw-holme Fair
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W:On a Friday, it fell in the month of April,
W:Over the hill came the morn' with the blithe sunny smile.
W:And the folks were a-thronging the roads everywhere,
W:Making haste to be in at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:I've seen them a-coming in from the mountains and glen,
W:Both rosy-faced lasses and strapping young men
W:With a joy in their heart and unburdened of care,
W:When meeting old friends at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:There's lads for the lasses, there's toys for the bairns,
W:There's jugglers and tumblers and folks with no arms,
W:There's a ballad-singer here and a fiddler there,
W:There are nut-men and spice-men at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:There are peddlers and there're potters and gingerbread stands,
W:There are peepshows and puff and darts and the green caravans,
W:There's fruit from all nations exhibited there
W:With kale plants from Harwich at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:And now about the hiring if you want to hear tell
W:You should ken it as a far as I've seen it myself.
W:What wages they addle, it's ill to declare,
W:The muckle they vary at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:Just the gal I have seen she's a strapping young queen.
W:He asked what her age was and where she had been,
W:What work she'd been doing, how long she'd been there,
W:What wages she wanted at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:Just then the pit lass stood a wee while in gloom
W:And she blushed and she scraped with her feet on the ground.
W:Then she plucked up her heart and did stoutly declare,
W:"I'll have five pound and ten at Copshawholme Fair."
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W:Says he, "But my lass, that's a very big wage."
W:Then he, turning about like he'd been in a rage,
W:Says, "I'll give ye five pounds but I'll give ye nae mair,
W:And I think you maun tak' it at Copshawholme Fair."
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W:He took out a shilling for to hold the pit wench
W:In case it might enter her head for to flinch,
W:But she grabbed at it, muttering, "I should o' had mair,
W:But I think I will tak' it at Copshawholme Fair."
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W:Now the hiring's over and off they all sprang
W:In to the ballroom for to join in the throng,
W:And "I Never Will Lie With My Mammy Nae Mair"
W:The fiddles play briskly at Copshawholme Fair.
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W:Now this is the fashion they thus pass the day
W:Till the night coming on they all hurry away,
W:And some are so sick that they'll never go more
W:With the fighting and dancing at Copshawholme Fair.

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