Mowing the Barley

X: 133
T: Mowing the Barley
N: This is version 2, for ABC software that understands multi-column text.
N: From "English Folk-Songs," by permission of H. W. Gray Company.
N: (A Game Song. For Directions, see p --.)
%R: air, jig
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: C
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w: 1.~A law-yer he went out one day, A-far to take his pleas-ure, And
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w: whom should he see but some fair pret-ty maid, So hand-some and so clev-er?
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P: The Lawyer:
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w: "Where are you go-ing to, my pret-ty maid, Where are you go-ing, my hon-ey?"
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P: The Maid:
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w: "Go-ing o-ver the hills, kind sir," she said, "To my fa-ther a-mow-ing the bar-ley."
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P: Together:
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w: Mo-ow, mo-ow,  mo-ow, mo-ow, mo-ow, mo----ow.*
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W: Together:
W: 2 The lawyer he went out next day,
W:   A-thinking for to view her;
W:   But she gave him the slip and away she went,
W:   All over the hills to her father.
W:   "Where are you going to," etc.
W:
W: Together:
W: 3 The lawyer had a useful nag,
W:   And soon he overtook her;
W:   He caught her around the middle so small,
W:   And on his horse he placed her.
W:   "Where are you going to," etc.
W:
W: Together:
W: 4 The lawyer told her a story bold,
W:   As together they were going,
W:   Till she quite forgot the barley field,
W:   And left her father a-mowing.
W:   "Where are you going to," etc.
W:
W: Together:
W: 5 And now she is the lawyer's wife,
W:   And daily the lawyer loves her,
W:   They live in a happy content of life,
W:   And well in the station above her.
W:   "Where are you going to," etc.
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/EverydaySongBook2/0273

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