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X:1
T:Limbo
S:James Brooman, Upper Faringdon, Hampshire.
Z:Dr. George Gardiner, October 1908.
N:Gardiner H.1272. Roud 969.
B:Frank Purslow, Marrowbones, EFDSS 1965.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:3/4
K:D
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w:I am a poor lad and my for-tune is bad, And if
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w:e-ver I gets rich 'tis a won-der,
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w:I've spent all my mon-ey on girls and strong beer, And what
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w:rich-es I had are all plun-dered.
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w:Field after field_ to mar-ket I sent, Till my
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w:land was all gone and my mon-ey all spent, My
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w:heart was so hard that I ne-ver could re-pent, And 'twas
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w:that_ that brought me to Lim-bo.