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T:Turpin Hero     %Tune name
B: The Jolly Herring, A&C Black, 1980     %Tune infos
M:4/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:Dm
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w:As Tur-pin rode a-cross the_ moor He saw a law-yer rid-ing be-fore
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w:"Kind_ sir," says he, "aren't you a-fraid Of Tur-pin, that mis-chiev-ous blade?"
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w: O rare Tur-pin he-ro. O rare Tur-pin_ O_
W:As Turpin rode across the moor
W:He saw a lawyer riding before.
W:"Kind sir," says he, "aren't you afraid
W:Of Turpin, that mischievous blade?"
W:
W:O rare Turin hero,
W:O rare Turpin O.
W:
W:Says Turpin, "He won't find me out,
W:I've hid my money in my boot."
W:The lawyer says, "No one can find
W:The gold I've stitched in my cape behind."
W:
W:As they rode by the foot of the hill
W:Turpin commands him to stand still.
W:Says he, "Tou cape I must cut off
W:For my mare she needs a new saddle-cloth."
W:
W:As Turpin rode over Salisbury Plain
W:He met a judge with all his train.
W:Then to the judge he did approach
W:And robbed him as he sat in his coach.
W:
W:For the shooting of a dunghill cock
W:Turpin now at last is took,
W:And no he lingers in a jail
W:Where his ill-luck he doth bewail.
W:
W:Now Turpin is condemned to die
W:And hang upon a gallows high.
W:His legacy is the hangman's rope
W:For the shooting of a dunghill cock.