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T:Never Marry an Old Man
B:Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, Vol 2, p 30, No 200, ed Maud Karpeles , Oxford University Press, 1974
S:Mrs Louie Hooper at Hambridge, Somerset, 13 April 1904
Z:Cecil Sharp
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:When he came court-ing me, pro-mised to mar-ry me, 
EDE GFE |DEF (F2 B) |
w:When he came court-ing me, I did all day_
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w:When he came court-ing me, pro-mised to mar-ry me.
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w:Girls, for my sake ne-ver wed an old man.