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Shirley & Dolly Collins's lyrics & chords

Shirley & Dolly Collins are a renowned English folk duo from Sussex consisting of sisters Shirley Collins and Dolly Collins. Their seminal recording is considered by many to be 'Anthems in Eden', released in 1969. It featured a suite of songs centred on the changes in rural England brought about by the First World War. Dolly Collins created arrangements featuring David Munrow and various other players from his Early Music Consort of London. Later albums include Love, Death and the Lady (1970), Amaranth (1976), For as Many as Will (1978), Harki...read more

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a foresaking - our captain cried

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are you going to leave me?

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the oxford girl

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the outlandish knight

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go from my window

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nellie the milkmaid

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salisbury plain

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plains of waterloo

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polly on the shore

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fare thee well my dearest dear

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fair maid of islington

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gathering rushes in the month of may

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young girl cut down in her prime

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the gower wassail

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death and the lady

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adieu to all judges and juries

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edi beo thu hevene quene

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sailor from dover

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lancashire lass

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the bold fisherman

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short jacket and white trousers

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the blacksmith courted me

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lord allenwater

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all things are quite silent

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just as the tide

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come all you little streamers

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greenwood laddie

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poor murdered woman

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all flowers in broome

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harvest home medley

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the bonny labouring boy

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hopping down in kent

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the captain with the whiskers

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is it far to bethlehem

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black eyed susan

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moon shines bright

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merry milkmaids

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the banks of sweet primroses

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the bonny bunch of roses

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the gallant hussar

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while gamekeepers lie sleeping

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down by the seaside

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black white yellow and green

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a virgin most pure

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one night as i lay on my bed

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i sing of a maiden that is makeness

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poor sally sits a weeping

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adieu to old england

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courtship; the wedding song

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down in yon forest

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the streets of derry

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spencer the rover

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new beginning; the staines morris

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the cherry tree carol

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the bird in the bush

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horkstow grange

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the cruel mother

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the false bride

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over the hills and far away

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higher germaine

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false true love

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the holly bears the crown

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cambridgeshire may carol

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the ram of derbish town

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locks and bolts

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lullay my liking

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the barley straw

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the maydens came

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pleasant and delightful

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lady margaret and sweet william

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