Bridgewater Fair-Nigel Perrin/David Parsons

[ti:Bridgewater Fair] [ar:Nigel Perrin/David Parsons] [al:The Water is Wide and other Lute Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bridgewater Fair - Nigel Perrin/David Parsons [00:03.11]All you who roam both young and old [00:05.21]Come listen to my story bold [00:07.40]For miles around from far and near [00:09.53]They come to see the rigs of the fair [00:11.77]Oh master John do you beware [00:14.02]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair [00:16.30] [00:18.81]The lads and lasses they come through [00:20.86]From Stowey Stogursey and Cannington too [00:23.06]That farmer from Fiddington true as my life [00:25.31]He's come to the fair to look for a wife [00:27.44]Oh master John do you beware [00:29.65]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair [00:32.04] [00:34.45]There's Tom and Jack they look so gay [00:36.55]With Sal and Kit they haste away [00:38.74]To shout and laugh and have a spree [00:41.03]And dance and sing right merrily [00:43.14]Oh master John do you beware [00:45.44]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair [00:48.05] [00:49.91]The jovial ploughboys all serene [00:52.12]They dance the maidens on the green [00:54.44]Says John to Mary [00:55.58]Don't you know [00:56.55]We won't go home till morning oh [00:58.75]Oh master John do you beware [01:00.97]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair [01:03.48] [01:05.95]There's Carroty Kit so jolly and fat [01:08.00]With her big flippety floppety hat [01:10.26]A hole in her stocking as big as a crown [01:12.47]And the hoops of her skirt hanging down to the ground [01:14.80]Oh master John do you beware [01:16.46] [01:17.04]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair [01:19.54] [01:22.24]It's up with the fiddle and off with the dance [01:25.57]The lads and lassies gaily prance [01:28.62]And when it's time to go away [01:31.53]They swear to meet again next day [01:34.56]Oh master John do you beware [01:37.08] [01:39.55]Don't you go kissing the girls at Bridgwater Fair