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T:The Doffin' Mistress
C:Trad
L:1/2=60
M:2/4
N: From the collection The Song and the Story
N: A doffer is someone who removes bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones. 
O: England
Z: abc-transcription - webmaster.
Z: abc-copyright @copy; David Cooke
K:G
|: G/2 B/2D/2 | |: "G"g d/2c/2 | B/2A/2 G | g/2g/2 a/4a3/4 |
w: Oh do you know her or do you not The new dof-fin
b a/2g/2 |  "D"f3/4e/4 d/2 z/2 | z b3/4a/4 | "G"gf/2d/2 |
w: miss-tress that we have got. El-sie Thomp-son it
"C"e/2f/2 "G/B"g | d3/4d/4 e3/4e/4 | ("C"e/2f/2) g/2e/2 | "D/Fs"d/2c/2 "G"B |
w:is her name and she helps the dof - fers at ev-ery frame
 "G"A3/4G/4 B/2d/2 | g d3/4c/4 | [1 B/2A/2 G | z/2 G/2 B/2D/2 :|[2 B/2A/2 G |]
w: lad-die right fol ra lad-die right fol ra
W: .
W:1.
W: Oh do you know her or do you not
W: This new doffin' mistress that we have got
W: Elsie Thompson is her name
W: And she helps the doffers at every frame.
W:.
W: ch.
W: Laddie-right-fol-ra
W: Laddie-right-fol-ra
W:.
W:2.
W: On Monday morning when she came in
W: She hung her clothes on the highest pin
W: She turned sround for to view her frames
W: Shouting: damn you, doflers, tie up your ends.
W:.
W:3.
W: Tie up our ends, we surely do
W: For Elsie Thompson, but not for you.
W: We'll tie up our ends and leave our frame
W: And wait for Elsie Thompson to return again.�
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Country of origin: England

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