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T:Riding Down to Portsmouth
B:Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, Vol 2, p 117, No 227, ed Maud Karpeles , Oxford University Press, 1974
S:Jack Barnard (45) at Bridgwater, Somerset, 16 April 1906
Z:Cecil Sharp
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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A3/2B/ |[M:4/4](GF) ED (FG) (3:2(AB)c | [M:3/4] d4
w:As a sai--lor was ri--ding_ a-long
(dc) |B3 G (ED) | C2 D2
w:In_ height of his_ glo-ry,
A3/2B/ |[M:4/4] (GF) ED ((3:2EFG) ((3:2AB)c |[M:3/4]d4
w:As a sai--lor was ri---ding_ a-long
(c3/2d/) | e4 (c3/2d/) |[M:4/4]B2 A4
w:Tell--ing a_ sto-ry,
(cd) |[M:3/4] (e3/2d/) dc BA | F4 ((3:2AB)c |d4
w:He_ met_ with a pret-ty maid by_ the way
d3/2c/ |BA GF GA |[M:4/4]((3:2BA)F E4
w:And those ve-ry ve-ry words to her_ did say:
A3/2B/ |(GF) ED FG (3:2(AB)c |[M:3/4]d4
w:  Pret-ty maid_ will you go a-long_ with me?
d3/2c/ | (B2-(3:2(BG)E) ED |C2 D2 |]
w:For I'm go---ing down to Ports-mouth.
W:As a sailor was riding along
W:In height of his glory,
W:As a sailor was riding along
W:Telling a story,
W:He met with a pretty maid by the way
W:And those very very words to her did say:
W:Pretty maid will you go along with me?
W:For I'm going down to Portsmouth.
W:
W:Kind sir, if I go along with thee,
W:I must be carried.
W:Kind sir, if I go along with thee
W:I must be married.
W:So she went along with him straightway
W:And she laid all in his arms till the day
W:And she leaved him all the reckoning to pay.
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W:Now in the morning when he awoke
W:He found his love a-missing,
W:Now in the morning when he awoke
W:He paid dear for his kissing.
W:O she robbed him of his gold watch and purse
W:And she took to him was ten times worse.
W:Don't you think she lay under a curse
W:In riding down to Portsmouth?
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W:Now landlord, what have I got to pay
W:That I may reward you?
W:Now landlord, what have I got to pay
W:That I may reward you?
W:For my horse I will leave it in pawn
W:Until from the seas I do return.
W:Such gallus, gallus girls I will shun
W:In riding down to Portsmouth
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