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Steeleye Span - A Calling-On Song
- 2
Steeleye Span - Barnet Fair
- 3
Steeleye Span - Dance With Me
- 4
Steeleye Span - Gaudete
- 5
Steeleye Span - Gentleman Soldier
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Steeleye Span - Long Lankin
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Steeleye Span - Long-A-Growing
- 8
Steeleye Span - The Bold Poachers
- 9
Steeleye Span - Betsy Bell And Mary Gray
- 10
Steeleye Span - Blackleg Miner
- 11
Steeleye Span - Captain Coulston
- 12
Steeleye Span - Copshawholme Fair
- 13
Steeleye Span - Drink Down THe Moon
- 14
Steeleye Span - Elf Call
- 15
Steeleye Span - Femele Drummer
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Steeleye Span - Galtee Farmer
- 17
Steeleye Span - Gamble Gold
- 18
Steeleye Span - Heir Of Linne
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Steeleye Span - Horkstow Grange
- 20
Steeleye Span - King Henry
- 21
Steeleye Span - Let Her Go Down
- 22
Steeleye Span - My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
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Steeleye Span - Padstow
- 24
Steeleye Span - Saucy Sailor
- 25
Steeleye Span - Seagull
- 26
Steeleye Span - Sheep-Crook And Black Dog
- 27
Steeleye Span - Skewball
- 28
Steeleye Span - Tell Me Why
- 29
Steeleye Span - The Deserter
- 30
Steeleye Span - The Hexhamshire Lass
- 31
Steeleye Span - The Lark In The Morning
- 32
Steeleye Span - The Maid And The Palmer
- 33
Steeleye Span - The Song Will Remain
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Steeleye Span - The Time Is Near
- 35
Steeleye Span - The Wee Wee Man
- 36
Steeleye Span - The Wife Of Ushers Well
- 37
Steeleye Span - They Called Her Babylon
- 38
Steeleye Span - Two Magicians
- 39
Steeleye Span - Where Are They Now
- 40
Steeleye Span - A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
- 41
Steeleye Span - Alison Gross
- 42
Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat
- 43
Steeleye Span - Awake, Awake
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Steeleye Span - Bachelor's Hall
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Steeleye Span - Black Jack Davy
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Steeleye Span - Blacksmith
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Steeleye Span - Boys Of Bedlam
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Steeleye Span - Cadgwith Anthem
- 49
Steeleye Span - Cam' Ye O'er Frae France
- 50
Steeleye Span - Chanticleer
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Steeleye Span - Corbies
- 52
Steeleye Span - Dark-eyed Sailor
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Steeleye Span - Demon Lover
- 54
Steeleye Span - Dogs And Ferrets
- 55
Steeleye Span - Edward
- 56
Steeleye Span - Edwin
- 57
Steeleye Span - Erin
- 58
Steeleye Span - False Knight On The Road
- 59
Steeleye Span - Fighting For Strangers
- 60
Steeleye Span - Fisherman's Wife
- 61
Steeleye Span - Following Me
- 62
Steeleye Span - Four Nights Drunk
- 63
Steeleye Span - Go From My Window
- 64
Steeleye Span - Gone To America
- 65
Steeleye Span - Gower Wassail
- 66
Steeleye Span - Hard Times of Old England
- 67
Steeleye Span - Hares On The Mountain
- 68
Steeleye Span - Harvest Of The Moon
- 69
Steeleye Span - Hunting The Wren
- 70
Steeleye Span - I Live Not Where I Love
- 71
Steeleye Span - I See His Blood Upon The Rose
- 72
Steeleye Span - Isabel
- 73
Steeleye Span - Jack Hall
- 74
Steeleye Span - John Barleycorn
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Steeleye Span - Lanercost
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Steeleye Span - Little Sir Hugh
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Steeleye Span - London
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Steeleye Span - Longbone
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Steeleye Span - Lord Randall
- 80
Steeleye Span - Lovely On The Water
- 81
Steeleye Span - Lowlands Of Holland
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Steeleye Span - Lyke Wake Dirge
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Steeleye Span - Marigold / Harvest Home
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Steeleye Span - Marrowbones
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Steeleye Span - Montrose
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Steeleye Span - My Love
- 87
Steeleye Span - New York Girls
- 88
Steeleye Span - One Misty Moisty Morning
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Steeleye Span - One Night As I Lay on My Bed
- 90
Steeleye Span - Orfeo/Nathan's Reel
- 91
Steeleye Span - Peace On The Border
- 92
Steeleye Span - Rag Doll
- 93
Steeleye Span - Rave On
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Steeleye Span - Rogues In A Nation
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Steeleye Span - Rosebud In June
- 96
Steeleye Span - Sails Of Silver
- 97
Steeleye Span - Scarecrow
- 98
Steeleye Span - Senior Service
- 99
Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
- 100
Steeleye Span - Seventeen Come Sunday
- 101
Steeleye Span - Sir James The Rose
- 102
Steeleye Span - Some Rival
- 103
Steeleye Span - Spotted Cow
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Steeleye Span - Stephen
- 105
Steeleye Span - Sweep, Chimney Sweep
- 106
Steeleye Span - Tam Lin
- 107
Steeleye Span - The Ballad Of Easy Rider
- 108
Steeleye Span - The Black Freighter
- 109
Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith
- 110
Steeleye Span - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
- 111
Steeleye Span - The Elf Knight
- 112
Steeleye Span - The Flowers Of The Forest
- 113
Steeleye Span - The Fox
- 114
Steeleye Span - The Hanging Song
- 115
Steeleye Span - The Hills of Greenmore
- 116
Steeleye Span - The Hiring Fair
- 117
Steeleye Span - The Lobster
- 118
Steeleye Span - The Royal Forester
- 119
Steeleye Span - The Shaking Of The Sheets
- 120
Steeleye Span - The Twelve Witches
- 121
Steeleye Span - The Ups And Downs
- 122
Steeleye Span - The Weaver And The Factory Maid
- 123
Steeleye Span - Thomas The Rhymer
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Steeleye Span - Three Drunken Maidens
- 125
Steeleye Span - Two Butchers
- 126
Steeleye Span - You Will Burn
Cam' Ye O'er Frae France
Steeleye Span
Cam ye o'er frae france?
Cam ye doon by lunnon?
Saw ye geordie whelps
And his bonnie woman?
Oh, weren't ye at the place
Called the kittle housie?
Saw ye geordie's grace
A-ridin' on a goosie?
Geordie, he's a man,
There is little doot o't,
And he's done a' he can,
All can dae wi'oot it,
Doon there cam' a blade,
Linkin' like ma lordie,
He wad drive a trade
At the loom o' geordie.
Though the claith were bad,
Blythly may we niffer
Gin we git oor wab,
It makes little differ,
We hae tint oor plaid,
Bonnet, belt and swordie
Ha's and mailin's braid,
But we hae oor geordie.
Jocky's gone to france,
And montgomery's lady
There will learn to dance;
Madam, are ye ready?
They'll be back belyve,
Belted brisk and lordly,
Brawly, may they thrive
To dance a jig wi' geordie!
Hey for sandy don,
Hey for cockalorum,
Hey for bobbin' john,
And his hielan' quorum!
Mony a sword and lance
Swings at hielan hurdie;
How they'll skip and dance
O'er the bum o' geordie!
Note: when george i imported his seraglio of impoverished gentlewomen
From germany, he provided the jacobite songwriters with material for
Some of their most ribald verses. madame kilmansegge, countess of platen,
Is referred to exclusively as "the sow" in the songs, while the king's
Favorite mistress, the lean and haggard madame schulemburg (afterwards
Named duchess of kendall) was given the name of "the goose". she is the
"goosie" referred to in this song. the "blade" is the count koningsmark.
"bobbing john refers to john, earl of mar, who was at the time recruiting
Highlanders for the hanoverian cause. "geordie whelps" is, of course,