X:0
T:The Iron Horse
M:C
L:1/8
B:The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, II, p. 291
K:D
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w:Come_ Hie-la-men, come Low-lan' men, Come il-ka man on earth man, And
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w:I'll tell you how I cam' on be-tween Dun-dee & Perth man, It was
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w:hurled_ in a four-wheeled horse the like I nev-er saw man, It was
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w:rug-git by an i-ron horse, An aw-fu' beast to draw man.
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w:Fal al di dal, Fal al di ra-die ta-die, Right fal al di dal.The version in Robert Ford's Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland [1st series] (Alexander Gardner, 1899, pp. 179-82; without music) is longer. THE IRON HORSE