Song | Copshawholme Fair |
Artist | Steeleye Span |
Album | Hark! The Village Wait |
作词 : Traditional | |
Traditional | |
On a fine eve'n fair in the month of Avril | |
O'er the hill came the man with the blythe sunny smile | |
And the folks they were throngin' the roads everywhere | |
Makin' haste to be in at Copshawholme Fair | |
I've seen 'em a-comin' in from the mountains and glens | |
Those rosy-faced lasses and strappin' young men | |
With a joy in their heart and unburdened o' care | |
A'meetin' old friends at Copshawholme Fair | |
There are lads for the lasses, there's toys for the bairns | |
There jugglers and tumblers and folks with no arms | |
There's a balancing act here and a fiddler there | |
There are nut-men and spice-men at Copshawholme Fair | |
There are peddlers and potters and gingerbread stands | |
There are peepshows and poppin-darts and the green caravans | |
There's fruit from all nations exhibited there | |
With kale plants from Orange at Copshawholme Fair | |
And now above all the hiring if you want to hear tell | |
You should ken it as afar I've seen it myself | |
What wages they adle it's ill to declare | |
The muckle they vary at Copshawholme Fair | |
Just the gal I have seen she's a strapping young queen | |
He asked what her age was and where she had been | |
What work she'd been doin', how long she'd been there | |
What wages she wanted at Copshawholme Fair | |
Just then the bit lass stood a wee while in gloom | |
And she blushed and she scraped with her feet on the ground | |
Then she plucked up her heart and did stoutly declare | |
Well, a five pound and turn at Copshawholme Fair | |
Says he, but me lass, that's a very big wage | |
Then he'd turning about like he been in a rage | |
Says, I'll give ye five pounds but I'll give ye nay mare | |
Well I think him and tuck it at Copshawholme Fair | |
He took out a shilling but to haul the bit wench | |
In case it might enter her head for to flinch | |
But she grabbed it muttering I should have had mare | |
But I think I will tuck it at Copshawholme Fair | |
Now the hirin's o'er and off they all sprang | |
Into the ballroom for to join in the throng | |
And "I Never Will Lie With My Mammy Nae Mair" | |
The fiddles play briskly at Copshawholme Fair | |
Now this is the fashion they thus passed the day | |
Till the night comin' on they all hurry away | |
And some are so sick that they'll never join more | |
With the fighting and dancing at Copshawholme Fair |
zuò cí : Traditional | |
Traditional | |
On a fine eve' n fair in the month of Avril | |
O' er the hill came the man with the blythe sunny smile | |
And the folks they were throngin' the roads everywhere | |
Makin' haste to be in at Copshawholme Fair | |
I' ve seen ' em acomin' in from the mountains and glens | |
Those rosyfaced lasses and strappin' young men | |
With a joy in their heart and unburdened o' care | |
A' meetin' old friends at Copshawholme Fair | |
There are lads for the lasses, there' s toys for the bairns | |
There jugglers and tumblers and folks with no arms | |
There' s a balancing act here and a fiddler there | |
There are nutmen and spicemen at Copshawholme Fair | |
There are peddlers and potters and gingerbread stands | |
There are peepshows and poppindarts and the green caravans | |
There' s fruit from all nations exhibited there | |
With kale plants from Orange at Copshawholme Fair | |
And now above all the hiring if you want to hear tell | |
You should ken it as afar I' ve seen it myself | |
What wages they adle it' s ill to declare | |
The muckle they vary at Copshawholme Fair | |
Just the gal I have seen she' s a strapping young queen | |
He asked what her age was and where she had been | |
What work she' d been doin', how long she' d been there | |
What wages she wanted at Copshawholme Fair | |
Just then the bit lass stood a wee while in gloom | |
And she blushed and she scraped with her feet on the ground | |
Then she plucked up her heart and did stoutly declare | |
Well, a five pound and turn at Copshawholme Fair | |
Says he, but me lass, that' s a very big wage | |
Then he' d turning about like he been in a rage | |
Says, I' ll give ye five pounds but I' ll give ye nay mare | |
Well I think him and tuck it at Copshawholme Fair | |
He took out a shilling but to haul the bit wench | |
In case it might enter her head for to flinch | |
But she grabbed it muttering I should have had mare | |
But I think I will tuck it at Copshawholme Fair | |
Now the hirin' s o' er and off they all sprang | |
Into the ballroom for to join in the throng | |
And " I Never Will Lie With My Mammy Nae Mair" | |
The fiddles play briskly at Copshawholme Fair | |
Now this is the fashion they thus passed the day | |
Till the night comin' on they all hurry away | |
And some are so sick that they' ll never join more | |
With the fighting and dancing at Copshawholme Fair |