[ti:Bridgewater Fair]
[ar:Nigel Perrin/David Parsons]
[al:The Water is Wide and other Lute Songs]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.00]Bridgewater Fair - Nigel Perrin/David Parsons
[00:03.11]All you who roam both young and old
[00:05.21]Come listen to my story bold
[00:07.40]For miles around from far and near
[00:09.53]They come to see the rigs of the fair
[00:11.77]Oh master John do you beware
[00:14.02]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair
[00:16.30]
[00:18.81]The lads and lasses they come through
[00:20.86]From Stowey Stogursey and Cannington too
[00:23.06]That farmer from Fiddington true as my life
[00:25.31]He's come to the fair to look for a wife
[00:27.44]Oh master John do you beware
[00:29.65]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair
[00:32.04]
[00:34.45]There's Tom and Jack they look so gay
[00:36.55]With Sal and Kit they haste away
[00:38.74]To shout and laugh and have a spree
[00:41.03]And dance and sing right merrily
[00:43.14]Oh master John do you beware
[00:45.44]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair
[00:48.05]
[00:49.91]The jovial ploughboys all serene
[00:52.12]They dance the maidens on the green
[00:54.44]Says John to Mary
[00:55.58]Don't you know
[00:56.55]We won't go home till morning oh
[00:58.75]Oh master John do you beware
[01:00.97]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair
[01:03.48]
[01:05.95]There's Carroty Kit so jolly and fat
[01:08.00]With her big flippety floppety hat
[01:10.26]A hole in her stocking as big as a crown
[01:12.47]And the hoops of her skirt hanging down to the ground
[01:14.80]Oh master John do you beware
[01:16.46]
[01:17.04]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair
[01:19.54]
[01:22.24]It's up with the fiddle and off with the dance
[01:25.57]The lads and lassies gaily prance
[01:28.62]And when it's time to go away
[01:31.53]They swear to meet again next day
[01:34.56]Oh master John do you beware
[01:37.08]
[01:39.55]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair