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Sheep Crook and Black Dog

from Postcards from Godley Moor, Autumn 2020 by Alula Down

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Traditional, from the singing of Ewan MacColl, arranged with evening sounds (21/10), harmonium, mbira, ukulele, banjo and voice.

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Here's my sheep-crook and my black dog, I give them to you
Here's my bag and my budget, I bid them adieu
Here's my sheep-crook and my black dog, I leave them behind
Fine Flora, my laurel, you've proved all unkind.

All to my dear Flora these words I did say
“Tomorrow we'll be married love, tomorrow is our day”
“No its too soon dear William my age is too young
One day to our wedding is one day too soon”

“I'll go into service if the day's not too late
To wait a fine lady - it is my intent
And when in service a year or two bound
It's then we'll be married love, and we'll settle down.”

A little while later a letter was wrote
It said that my Flora she had changed her mind
And it said that she had lived such a contrary life
She'd never be - she couldn't be - a young shepherd's wife.

Here's my sheep-crook and my black dog, I give them to you.
Here's my bag and my budget, I bid them adieu.
Here's my sheep-crook and my black dog, I leave them behind.
Fine Flora, my laurel, you've proved so unkind.

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from Postcards from Godley Moor, Autumn 2020, released December 4, 2020
Written, recorded and mixed by Alula Down.

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