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Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat
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Steeleye Span - The Flowers Of The Forest
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Steeleye Span - A Calling-On Song
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Steeleye Span - A Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
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Steeleye Span - Alison Gross
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Steeleye Span - Awake, Awake
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Steeleye Span - Bachelor's Hall
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Steeleye Span - Barnet Fair
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Steeleye Span - Betsy Bell And Mary Gray
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Steeleye Span - Black Jack Davy
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Steeleye Span - Blackleg Miner
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Steeleye Span - Blacksmith
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Steeleye Span - Boys Of Bedlam
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Steeleye Span - Cadgwith Anthem
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Steeleye Span - Cam' Ye O'er Frae France
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Steeleye Span - Captain Coulston
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Steeleye Span - Chanticleer
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Steeleye Span - Copshawholme Fair
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Steeleye Span - Corbies
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Steeleye Span - Dance With Me
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Steeleye Span - Dark-eyed Sailor
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Steeleye Span - Demon Lover
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Steeleye Span - Dogs And Ferrets
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Steeleye Span - Drink Down THe Moon
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Steeleye Span - Edward
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Steeleye Span - Edwin
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Steeleye Span - Elf Call
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Steeleye Span - Erin
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Steeleye Span - False Knight On The Road
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Steeleye Span - Femele Drummer
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Steeleye Span - Fighting For Strangers
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Steeleye Span - Fisherman's Wife
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Steeleye Span - Following Me
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Steeleye Span - Four Nights Drunk
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Steeleye Span - Galtee Farmer
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Steeleye Span - Gamble Gold
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Steeleye Span - Gaudete
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Steeleye Span - Gentleman Soldier
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Steeleye Span - Go From My Window
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Steeleye Span - Gone To America
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Steeleye Span - Gower Wassail
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Steeleye Span - Hard Times of Old England
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Steeleye Span - Hares On The Mountain
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Steeleye Span - Harvest Of The Moon
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Steeleye Span - Heir Of Linne
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Steeleye Span - Horkstow Grange
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Steeleye Span - Hunting The Wren
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Steeleye Span - I Live Not Where I Love
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Steeleye Span - I See His Blood Upon The Rose
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Steeleye Span - Isabel
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Steeleye Span - Jack Hall
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Steeleye Span - John Barleycorn
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Steeleye Span - King Henry
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Steeleye Span - Lanercost
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Steeleye Span - Let Her Go Down
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Steeleye Span - Little Sir Hugh
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Steeleye Span - London
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Steeleye Span - Long Lankin
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Steeleye Span - Long-A-Growing
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Steeleye Span - Longbone
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Steeleye Span - Lord Randall
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Steeleye Span - Lovely On The Water
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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 Johnny Was A Shoemaker
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Steeleye Span - My Love
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Steeleye Span - New York Girls
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Steeleye Span - One Misty Moisty Morning
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Steeleye Span - One Night As I Lay on My Bed
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Steeleye Span - Orfeo/Nathan's Reel
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Steeleye Span - Padstow
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Steeleye Span - Peace On The Border
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Steeleye Span - Rag Doll
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Steeleye Span - Rave On
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Steeleye Span - Rogues In A Nation
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Steeleye Span - Rosebud In June
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Steeleye Span - Sails Of Silver
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Steeleye Span - Saucy Sailor
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Steeleye Span - Scarecrow
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Steeleye Span - Seagull
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Steeleye Span - Senior Service
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Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves
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Steeleye Span - Seventeen Come Sunday
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Steeleye Span - Sheep-Crook And Black Dog
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Steeleye Span - Sir James The Rose
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Steeleye Span - Skewball
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Steeleye Span - Some Rival
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Steeleye Span - Spotted Cow
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Steeleye Span - Stephen
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Steeleye Span - Sweep, Chimney Sweep
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Steeleye Span - Tam Lin
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Steeleye Span - Tell Me Why
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Steeleye Span - The Ballad Of Easy Rider
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Steeleye Span - The Black Freighter
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Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith
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Steeleye Span - The Bold Poachers
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Steeleye Span - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
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Steeleye Span - The Deserter
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Steeleye Span - The Elf Knight
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Steeleye Span - The Fox
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Steeleye Span - The Hanging Song
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Steeleye Span - The Hexhamshire Lass
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Steeleye Span - The Hills of Greenmore
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Steeleye Span - The Hiring Fair
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Steeleye Span - The Lark In The Morning
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Steeleye Span - The Lobster
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Steeleye Span - The Maid And The Palmer
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Steeleye Span - The Royal Forester
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Steeleye Span - The Shaking Of The Sheets
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Steeleye Span - The Song Will Remain
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Steeleye Span - The Time Is Near
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Steeleye Span - The Twelve Witches
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Steeleye Span - The Ups And Downs
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Steeleye Span - The Weaver And The Factory Maid
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Steeleye Span - The Wee Wee Man
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Steeleye Span - The Wife Of Ushers Well
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Steeleye Span - They Called Her Babylon
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Steeleye Span - Thomas The Rhymer
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Steeleye Span - Three Drunken Maidens
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Steeleye Span - Two Butchers
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Steeleye Span - Two Magicians
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Steeleye Span - Where Are They Now
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Steeleye Span - You Will Burn
The Hanging Song
Steeleye Span
Come along John, don't be slow Wake up John, it's time to go
Wake up John, it's time to go
A priest joins the procession just to help me kneel
With a warder at my elbow and another at my heel
Marching in the morning down a path I've lately seen
I was sleeping in this garden, am I still within my dream?
The echo of my heartbeat is the beating of a drum
And all the earth is singing with life's sweet hum
We filed in solemn silence, shuffled through a door
The place where life is taken for the letter of the law
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
A rope was hanging from the roof, a sight which puzzles me
I thought a gibbet and a guard would make a gallows tree
But now all is revealed, stamped there is the command
My feet are on the trapdoor with a rope around my hand
And now the executioner is shaking hands with me
"My duty I must carry out, you poor fellow," says he
A strap is tied around my feet and a bag upon my head
And then the noose which separates the living from the dead
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
There he whispers to me "Have you anything to say?"
My mouth is dry, my throat is tight, I answer "Drop away"
Silence now surrounds me, my heart is beating on
The trapdoor hardly moves at all, my life is still my own
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still bound
While a carpenter is called for and an explanation found
"The rain has warped the timbers," I hear the hangman say
"It's funny but it worked well, I tried it yesterday"
"All is mended now," they say, "your ordeal's nearly over
Your life's as good as ended," but I hear their voices waver
Once more the?board is shaked? And again I hang in limbo
While the guards jump on the trapdoor and my body stands on tip-toe
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard
They stand me in a corner with my hands and feet still ties
A warder holds onto the noose, the trapdoor opens wide
Is it magic or coincidence that keeps me on the brink?
It seems to work without me, "Will it kill me now?" I think
"Please, I'm tired of living and I really want to die"
I was taken to the scaffold and I heard the hangman cry
"Lee, I'm truly sorry, forgive these hands of mine"
He drew the bolt and I felt the jolt the third and final time
My life was spared that morning 'cos it wasn't theirs to take
Three's the?boat? The law requires, a man could feel the stake
Shake the holy water, summon up the guard
Dying's very easy, waiting's very hard