The Pretty Ploughboy

X:2
T:The Pretty Ploughboy 
F:http://www.vwml.org/record/EML/1/2
S:John Morgan age 80 farm labourer, Dilwyn. Noted by R Hughes Rowlands, Dilwyn
Z:transcribed by Mary Humphreys June 2015
N: 
M:3/4
L:1/4
K:G
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w:It's_ of a pret-ty plough-boy was plough-ing on the plain When his hor-ses stood un-der-
(d B) ^c| B2||(G/A/)|(B B) (3B/^c/^d/| e2 d/ ^c/|B B (A  G)| A2 
w: neath_\ the shade. This |   was_  his | song as he|did walk a_|long
G/ A/|(B B) c/ A/| B B (3A/G/E/|E2
w:And his chance_ was to | meet a pretty| maid.
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w:If_I should fall_in love and your par-ents came to  know and the next thing they would send me to the
E2||B| B2 c/ A/| B B z B/| A/G/ E E| E2 B/ B/| B2 (3B/^c/^d/| e e d/ ^c/|
w: sea. When their  ag-ed par-ents the same_came to know Pret-ty ploughboy was| plough-ing on the 
B2||G/A/| B B (3B/^c/^d/| e2 d/ ^c/|B B A/G/| A2|| G/A/| B B c/A/|
w:plain The_ press-gang they_ |sent and they  pressed my love aw-ay. And_ sent him to the
B B (3A/G/E/| E2||
w:wars to be _| slain

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