Richard Thompson : What We Did On Our Holidays

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How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er

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And watched the daylight passing

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Within her captive walls

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With no one to heed her calls

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The evening hour is fading with the dwindling sun And in these lonely moments Those embers will be gone And the last of all the young birds flown

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Her days of precious freedom forfeited long before To live such fruitless years Behind a guarded door But those days last no more

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Tomorrow at this hour she will be far away Much further than these islands For the lonely fotheringay

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If she knew what I've seen while I'm watching

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Would she know where to smile, what to say?

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When she leaves from her book to be with me

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Where's her mind as she stands while I play? |

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| She left behind names in the pages And the time she took out, they stayed in Now she thinks that she maybe should tell them Of my book and the places she's been Now she's looking at me while I'm writing Does she know where to smile, what to say? When she leaves from her book to be with me What's she thinking about while I play?

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Hey, come and make it easy

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Hey, come and make it black

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It's no use to be free

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If lies are all the truth they see

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They'll screw up what you do (

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| Hey, come and make it easy Hey, come and make it black If you need a friend And you need a way to lose the end You know a place for you When you're through |

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| Hey, come and make it easy Hey, come and make it black It's no use to be free If lies are all the truth they see They'll screw up what you do When you're through |

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You may search at any cost

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But how long can you search for what's not lost?

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Everybody will help you

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Some people are very kind..

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But if I can save you any time

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Come on, give it to me

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I'll.. keep it with mine.. I can't help it, if you might think I'm odd If I say I'm loving you, not for what you are, but for what you're not Everybody will help you Discover what you set out to find.. But if I can save you any time Come on, give it to me I'll.. keep it with mine..

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The train leaves at half past ten But I'll be back tomorrow at the same time again The conductor, he's weary He's still stuck on the line.. But if I can save you any time Come on, give it to me I'll.. keep it with mine..

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Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)

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In Nottamun town not a soul would look up Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down To show me the way to fair Nottamun town And the king and the queen and the company more Came walking behind and a riding before Come a stark naked drummer a-beating the drum With his hand on his bosom came marching along Sat down on a hard hot cold frozen stone Ten thousand stood round me yet I was alone Took my hat in my hand for to keep my head warm Ten thousand got drowned that never was born

Instrumental

In Nottamun town not a soul would look up Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down To show me the way to fair Nottamun town

(Show chord shapes)

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Bb6 x13333

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Am7

Take the sun from my heart

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Let me learn to despise

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I'll show you another who cannot tell lies

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The blind man can't see

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Who demands to his eyes

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I'll show you another who sings as he cries

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I cannot be whole

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As the beggar who sighs

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I'll show you another who knows as he dies

Tuning: DADGAD (not sure for the Fairport version)

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My young love said to me, my mother don't mind

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And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind

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And she laid her hand on me and this is she did say

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It will not be long love till our wedding day

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And she went away from me and moves through the fair And fondly I watched her move here and move there And then she went homeward, just one star awake Like a swan in the evening moves over the lake

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Last night she came to me, my dead love came in So softly she came that her feet made no din And she laid her hand on me and this she did say Oh, it will not be long love till our wedding day

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We used to say

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That come the day

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We'd all be making songs

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Or finding better words

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These ideas never lasted long The way is up Along the road The air is growing thin Too many friends who tried Were blown off this mountain with the wind

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Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge

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When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends

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Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge

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If you really mean it, it all comes round again Yet now I see I'm all alone But that's the only way to be You'll have your chance again Then you can do the work for me Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge If you really mean it, it all comes round again

Richard Thompson : What We Did On Our Holidays 1968

Fotheringay

Book Song

No Man's Land

I'll Keep It With Mine

Nottamun Town

Tale In Hard Time

She Moves Through The Fair

Meet On The Ledge