Misc Traditional – The Game Of Cards (Guitar)

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As I was a-walking one midsummer's morning

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I heard the birds whistle and the nightingales play.

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And there did I spy a beautiful maiden

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As I was a-walking all on the highway.

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“O where are you going, my fair pretty lady?

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O where are you going so early this morn?”

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She said: “I'm going down to visit my neighbours;

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I'm going down to Warwick, the place I was born.”

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It's “May I come with you, my sweet pretty darling?

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May I go along in your sweet company?”

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Then she turned her head and smiling all at me

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Saying: “You may come with me, kind sir, if you please.”

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We hadn't been walking but a few miles together

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Before this young damsel began to show free.

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She sat herself down, saying: “Sit down beside me,

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And the games we shall play shall be one, two and three.”

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I said: “My dear lady, if you're fond of the gaming

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There's one game I know I would like you to learn.

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The game it is called: The Game of All Fours.”

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So I took out my pack and began the first turn.

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She cut the cards first and I fell a-dealing.

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I dealt her a trump and myself the poor jack.

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She led off her ace and stole my jack from me,

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Saying: “Jack is the card I like best in your pack.”

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“Since I dealt them last time, it's your turn to shuffle

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And my turn to show the best card in the pack.”

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Once more she'd the ace and the deuce for to beat me,

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Once again I had lost when I laid down poor jack.

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I took up my hat and I bid her: “Good morning,”

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I said: “You're the best that I know at this game.”

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She answered: “Young man, if you'll come back tomorrow

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We'll play the game over and over again.”