Тексты песен «Seeger Peggy»

BUTCHER'S BOY She went upstairs to make her bed And not one word to her mother said Her mother she went upstairs too Saying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?" "Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tell That...

CHILD WATERS I warn you all you ladies fair that do wear red and brown That you don't leave your father's house to run with a boy from town For here am I, a lady fair, I did wear red and brown And I did leave my...

CHYLDE OWLET Lady Erskine sits in her bower A sewing her silken seam A bonnie sark for Chylde Owlet As he gangs oot and in His face was fair, lang was his hair She's ca'd him to come nigh Oh ye maun cuckold Lord...

COME FILL UP YOUR GLASSES (Peggy Seeger) Come fill up your glasses with whiskey and beer And drink a full glass to a happy new year To our sisters and brothers,and may they live long, So lift up your glasses and join...

FAIR ROSAMUND CLIFFORD I have a sister, young Clifford, he said A sister no man knows She hath a color in her cheek Like drops of blood in snow Like drops of blood in snow She hath a waist, a waist, a waist Like my...

GREY COCK Johnny he promised to marry me I fear he's with some fair one and gone There's something that ails him and I don't know what it is But I'm weary of lying alone Johnny he came at the appointed hour Knocked on...

HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT (G) C - F C / G - G7 C / C - F C / G - G7 C One day I was walking, I heard a complaining And saw an old woman the picture of gloom She gazed at the mud on her doorstep ('twas raining) And this was...

I'M GONNA BE AN ENGINEER When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys. Everybody said I only did it to annoy But I was gonna be an engineer Mamma said, "Why...

JELLON GRAEME Jellon Graeme sat in the wood, he whistled and he sang He called for his servant boy who quickly to him ran Hurry up, hurry up, my pretty little boy, as fast as ever you can You must run for Rosy Flower...

MOVING ON SONG (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger) Born in the middle of an afternoon In a horse-drawn wagon on the old A5 The big twelve wheeler shook my bed You can't stop here the policeman said You better get born...

Old Crumley or I can do more work in a day than my wife can do in three Old Crumley he began to swear As the leaf grows on the tree, tree That he could do as much work in a day As his wife could do in three, three...

RECLAIM THE NIGHT (Peggy Seeger) Though Eve was made from Adam's rib Nine months he lay within her crib How can a man of woman born Thereafter use her sex with scorn? For though we bear the human race To us is given...

SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER Dm C Dm C In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia Dm G Dm Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine G C...

SUFFOLK MIRACLE or SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST (2) It's of an old and wealthy man He had a daughter and her name was Ann She were handsome, fine and tall She had a loving face withal Sing lady, lady, lady fair Many a...

Too Much of a Good Thing (Peggy Seeger) On Monday night he came to my door, and he made such a din. ``Get up, get up you darling girl, and let your lover come in.'' Well I got up and I let him in, and on me he did...

WINNIE AND SAM (Peggy Seeger) Here's a song about Winnie, she married handsome Sam He called her "My own little wife" and she called him "my man" Oh what a lovely wedding, a hundred guests or more Before the honeymoon...

YOUNG PEGGY Whaur hae ye been, Peggy Whaur hae ye been? In the garden 'mong the gillyflooers 'Tween the hours o' twelve and ane Ye were nae yoursel', Peggy No' there your lane Your faither saw ye in Jamie's arms...