Misc Traditional – Truro Agricultural Show (Guitar)

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Ee-I-O and away we go

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To Truro Agricultural Show.

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Good people all who hear my voice,

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You now have reason to rejoice;

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For off to Truro we do go,

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To see the Agricultural Show.

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show.

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A motley group you will see there,

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Fat farmers and their wives so rare;

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Their bouncing daughters neat and clean,

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With a pork-pie hat and  crinoline.

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show.

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From Newlyn East, St Columb, too,

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There’s hump-backed Jim and carroty Joe;

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And a special train upon the rail

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To bring all the prisioners from Bodmin Jail.

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show.

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They’ve got a band from Plymouth down,

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The best that ever was in the town;

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All the gentry will be there:

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It’s twice as pretty at Whitsun Fair.

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show.

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There’s horses, ponies, cows and calves,

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Truro don’t do things by halves.

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Devon bulls, sheep, pigs and geese:

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You can see it all for a shilling apiece.

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show

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There’s things up there that’ll make you laugh;

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There’s a three-legged bull and a nine-legged calf,

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Theres a queer old group from the USA

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Well you don’t get quality every day

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show

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Now all around I hear them say,

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“We’ll see this show this very day;

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Rich and poor , high and low,

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At  Truro Agricultural Show.”

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show

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I’m glad you’re come, I see you’re here;

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There’s folk that come from far and near:

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Rich and poor and high and low,

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At Truro Agricultural Show.

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So don’t go kissing they girls you know

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At Truro Agricultural Show