X: 1
T:Seven Long Years
S:Digital Tradition, svnlngyr
B:From English Folk Songs in the Southern Appalachians, Sharp
B:Collected from Mrs. Moore, GA 1929
Z:dt:svnlngyr
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:Seven long years I've been bound to my trade
W:In one more I'll be free,
W:I belong to that jovial crew,
W:And no one cares for me.
W:I'll romp and I'll rove, and I'll call for my bode
W:They may all say what they will;
W:Resolved that I am, just as long as I can
W:for to drink good liquor still
W:
W:I have a good old father at home,
W:And I've cost him many a pound,
W:And now to make amends for this,
W:I'll travel the whole world round.
W:I have a good old mother at home,
W:I've caused her a many a tear,
W:And now to make amends for this,
W:I'll travel far and near.
W:
W:I have a good little sister at home,
W:And she gave me a good piece of advice,
W:Said for me to stay with my kind old parents
W:And to marry me a pretty little wife.
W:I have a good little sweetheart at home,
W:She gave me a broad piece of gold;
W:It'll neither buy me a house nor a home,
W:Nor save my soul from hell;
W:It'll only buy me a full flowing bowl,
W:That the ladies may drink their fill.
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