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6. Lancashire Lads:
Traditional
- Kathleen Mullaly Masino - Lead vocal
- Bill Masino - Harmony vocal
- Colin O'Brian - Acoustic Guitar
- Randy Wothke - Snare
- Bryan Blaylock - Bodhran
- We first heard this song as it was done by The Old Blind Dogs www.oldblinddogs.demon.co.uk/. Kathleen tries really hard to imitate their accent and sings "Lan-cah-shir". It nice to be naive enough to believe with this lassie, that her sweat heart will not only come back from war, but will stay true.
- Scotland Forever by Lady Butler
Lyrics:
- 1) It was last Monday morning,
- I heard them call and say,
- The orders came this afternoon,
- we’re bound to march away.
- Chorus:
- For the Lancashire lads have gone abroad,
- whatever shall we do?
- They’re leaving may a pretty fair maids to cry,
- what shall I do?
- 2) Said the mother to the daughter,
- what makes you talk so strange.
- That you want to marry a soldier lad,
- the whole wide world to range.
- For soldiers they are ramblin’ boys,
- they have but little pay.
- Can they maintain a wife and child
- on sixteen pence a day?
- Chorus:
- 3) Said the father to the daughter,
- "I’ll have you close confined.
- You’ll never marry a soldier lad.
- He’ll be no son of mine.
- If you confine me seven long years
- and after set me free,
- I’ll go and find my soldier lad
- when I gain my liberty.
- Chorus:
- My true loved dressed in scarlet
- and turned up with the blue
- And every place the he goes in
- my sweetheart is true.
- For they have sweethearts enough,
- me boys, and girls to please their minds,
- But I’ll never forget sweat Manchester,
- the girls they left behind.
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