Misc Traditional – Next Market Day (Guitar)

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A maid went to Comber her markets to learn

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To sell for her mammy three hanks of fine yarn.

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She met a young man on the King’s own highway

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Which caused this young damsel to dally and stray.

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Come sit down beside me I mean you no harm

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Come sit down beside me this new tune to learn.

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Here are three new guineas, your mammy to pay

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So leave off your learnin’ till the next market day.

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She sat down beside him, the grass was so green

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The day was the fairest that ever was seen.

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The look in your eye beats a morning in May

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I could sit by your side till the next market day.

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Now as she went homeward, the words he had said

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And the tune that he sung her still rang in her head.

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I’ll search for that lad be it land or by sea

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Till he learns me the tune to ‘The Next Market Day.’