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--- song:hard-times [2008/12/27 21:15] – Jeff Bigler
+++ song:hard-times [2008/12/27 21:19] (current) – Jeff Bigler
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+====== The Hard Times of Old England ======
+<abc>X:1
+T:The Hard Times of Old England
+C:traditional
+M:3/4
+L:1/4
+K:G major
+G>A | B G A | B G A | B G B |
+w:Come_ | all bro-ther | trades-men that | tra-vel a- |
+(A G) F | G A G | F E D/D/ | E C E |
+w:lone_ O, | pray come and | tell me where the | trade is all |
+D2 D | G G D | E E C | D E C | D2 ||
+w:gone Long | time I have | tra-velled and | can-not find | none ||
+G/G/ | A>B c | B A F | G2 D- | D
+w:and it's | O, the hard | times of old | Eng-land_
+G>F | E D C | D E F | G3- | G |]
+w:in old | Eng-e-land | ve-ry hard times_</abc>
+. Come all brother tradesmen that travel alone
+O pray come and tell me where the trade is all gone
+Long time I have travelled and cannot find none
+**Chorus:**
+//And it's: O, the hard times of old England
+In old Eng-e-land very hard times.//
+. Provisions you buy at the shop it is true
+But if you've no money there's none there for you
+So what's a poor man and his family to do?
+[Chorus]
+. If you go to a shop and you ask for a job
+They will answer you there with a shake and a nod
+So that's enough to make a man turn out and rob
+[Chorus]
+. You will see the poor tradesmen a-walking the street
+From morning till night for employment to seek
+And scarcely they've got any shoes on their feet
+[Chorus]
+. Our soldiers and sailors have just come from war
+Been fighting for their queen and the country, 'tis sure
+Come home to be starved, better stayed where they were
+[Chorus]
+. And now to conclude and to finish my song
+Let us hope that these hard times they will not last long
+I hope soon to have occasion to alter my song:
+//And sing: O, the good times of old England
+In old Eng-e-land jolly good times.//