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T:The Cottage thatched with straw.
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
B:Songs of the West by S.Baring-Gould.
S:John Watts, quarryman, Alder, Thrustleton.
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w:In the days of yore, there sat at his door, An old far-mer and thus sang he-'With my
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w:pipe and my glass, I wish *every class On the earth were as well as me!' For he
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w:en-vi ed not a-ny man his lot, The *rich-est, the proud-est, he saw, For he had
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w:home-brewed, brown bread, And a cot-tage well thatch'd with straw, And a
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w:cot tage well thatch'd with straw, And a cot-tage well thatch'd with straw; For he had
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w:  home-brewed, brown bread, And a cot-tage well thatch'd with straw.