Nottamun Town-Jean Ritchie

[ti:Nottamun Town (Album Version)] [ar:Jean Ritchie] [al:Mountain Hearth & Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Nottamun Town (Album Version) - Jean Ritchie [00:07.00]In Nottamun Town not a soul would look up [00:11.58] [00:13.22]Not a soul would look up [00:14.75] [00:16.29]Not a soul would look down [00:17.72] [00:19.34]Not a soul would look up [00:20.88] [00:22.46]Not a soul would look down [00:23.95] [00:25.64]To show me the way to fair Nottamun Town [00:29.15] [00:32.20]I rode a gray horse a mule gray mane [00:36.57] [00:38.35]Gray mane and gray tail a green stripe down her back [00:43.12] [00:44.75]Gray mane and gray tail a green stripe down her back [00:49.73] [00:51.30]There wasn't a hair on her be what was coal black [00:55.25] [00:57.86]She stood so still she threw me to the dirt [01:02.59] [01:04.14]She tore a my hide and she bruised my shirt [01:08.62] [01:10.45]From saddle to stirrup I mounted again [01:14.77] [01:16.57]And on my ten toes I rode over the plain [01:19.79] [01:22.74]Met the king and the queen and the company mourn [01:27.32] [01:29.12]A walking behind and riding before [01:33.25] [01:35.26]Come a stark naked drummer [01:36.78] [01:38.27]A beating the drum [01:39.45] [01:41.28]With his hands on his bosom come marching along [01:44.37] [01:47.62]I bought me a quart to drive gladness away [01:52.01] [01:53.71]And to stifle the dust for it rained the whole day [01:57.40] [02:01.13]Sat down on a hard hot cold frozen stone [02:05.70] [02:07.34]Ten thousand stood round me and yet I's alone [02:12.14] [02:13.90]Took my hat in my hand for to keep my head warm [02:18.54] [02:20.20]Ten thousand got drowned that never was born