Songs of Shepherds

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T:Songs of Shepherds
B:Sabine Baring Gould, Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie, 1895
F: http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
N:Tune is 'Hunting the Hare'
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K:D
d2 D F G A |B e d c B c |
w:Songs of shep-herds in rus-ti-cal round-de-lays, 
d2 D F G A |B e c d3 |
w:Form'd in fan-cy and whis-tled on reeds. 
d2 D F G A |B g e c B c |
w:Sung to sol-ace young nymphs up-on ho-ly days, 
d d D F G A |B e c d3 |
w:Are too un-worth-y for won-der-ful deeds; 
f e d f e d |f e d f e 
w:Sot-tish Si-le-nus to Phoe-bus the ge-nius, 
d |e c d e c d |e/f/ g f e2 
w:Was sent by dame Ve-nus a song_ to pre-pare; 
d e | d D F G A |B g e c
w:In phrase nice-ly coin'd_ And verse quite re-fin'd
 B c |d2 D F G A |B e c d3 |]
w: How the states di-vine__ hunt-ed the hare. 
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