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Marrowbones
Found in Marrowbones.abc
from the John Chambers abc collection
X:1
T:Marrowbones
B:Everymans Book Of British Ballads, ed Roy Palmer
S:Sung by James Knights (b. 1880)
Z:Collected by George Ewart Evans, March 1968.
M:3/8
L:1/16
K:D
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w:Now there was an old wo-man in I-re-land, In Ire-land she did dwell;_ She loved her old hus-band right dear-ly, And a-no-ther man twice as well._ To my rid-dy fol lol, ri rid-dy fol lol, Ri rid-dy fol lau-rel day, Ri rid-dy fol lol, ri rid-dy fol lol, Ri rid-dy for lau-rel day.
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