North Country Maid

X:12048
T:North Country Maid
S:Digital Tradition, ncntrymd
D:Recorded by Deller Consort, also Watersons
Z:dt:ncntrymd
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:A north country maid up to London has strayed
W:All though with her nature it did not agree
W:And she's wept and she's sighed
W:And she's wrung her hands and cried,
W:Oh I wish once again in the north I could be.
W:
W:  Chorus:
W:  For the oak and the ash,
W:  And the bonny ivy tree
W:  All flourish and bloom
W:  In my north country.
W:
W:How sadly I roamed and lament my dear home,
W:Where lads and lasses are making the hay
W:Where the bells they do ring
W:And the little birds do sing,
W:And the maidens and meadows are pleasant and gay.
W:
W:No doubt if I please, I could marry with ease
W:For where bonnie lasses are, lovers will come
W:But the lad that I wed,
W:Must be North country bred,
W:And must carry me back to my North country home.
K:G
B,2|E2EF G2FE|F2FG A2G-F|E2EF G2FE|^D2B^A B2B-c|
d2BA G2FG|AGFE D2EF|G2FE ^D2EF|E2B-^A B2B3/2c/|
d2B3/2A/ G2F3/2G/|A/G3/2FE D2E-F|G2FE ^D2EF|E2E-D E2||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/LesterBailey/melnets_big_abc_file/09381
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/09381
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/atrilcoral.com/n-o/0441
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kirby98.fsnet.co.uk/no/North_Country_Maid_1/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mucl.de/~mdoering/dt-songs/0144

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