Misc Traditional – Riding Down From Bangor (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
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Riding down from Bangor on the eastern train,

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After weeks of hunting in the woods of Maine,

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Quite extensive whiskers, beard, moustache as well,

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Sat a student fellow, tall and slim and swell,

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Empty seat behind him, no one at his side,

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Into quiet village eastern train did glide,
[Verse 2]
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Enter aged couple; take the hindmost seat,

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Enter village maiden, beautiful petite.

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Blushingly she faltered, "Is this seat engaged?"

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See the aged couple properly enraged.

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Student quite ecstatic, sees her ticket "Through"

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Thinks of the long tunnel, thinks what he might do.
[Verse 3]
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Pleasantly they chatted; how the cinders fly,

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Till the student fellow gets one in his eye,

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Maiden sympathetic turns herself about,

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"May I, if you please, sir, try to get it out?"

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Then the student fellow feels a gentle touch,

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Hears a gentle murmur "Does it hurt you much?"

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Whiz, slap, bang, into tunnel quite,

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Into glorious darkness, black as Egypt's night.
[Verse 4]
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Out into the daylight glides that eastern train,

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Student's hair is ruffled just the merest grain,

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Maiden seen all blushes when then and there appeared

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A tiny little earring in that horrid student's beard.