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Lyrics for Campbell The Drover by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Campbell The Drover | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 192 | | | | Lyrics: | Campbell, the Drover
The first day of April I'll never forget
Three English lassies
together they met
They mounted their horses and swore solemnly
That they would play a
trick on the first man they see
And sing fol the rol daddy
Fol the rol
daddy
Fol the rol daddy
Sing fol the rol day
Oh, Campbell, the drover, went
riding one day
And soon he encountered those ladies so gay
They reined in their horses and
he did the same
And in close conversation together they came
They asked him to show
them the way to the inn
And would he drink whiskey or would he drink gin?
Then Campbell
made answer and said with a smile
"Sure, I long for to taste the strong ale of
Carlisle"
They called in the servants and started a dance
They ordered the landlord
to spare no expense
They danced the next morning 'til 'twixt eight and nine
And they
called for their breakfast and afterwards wine
They mounted their horses, alas and
alack
It dawned on the landlord they weren't coming back
He said, "My dear Irishman, I am
afraid
That those three English jokers a trick on you played"
"Never mind," says old
Campbell, "If they've gone astray
I've plenty of money, the reckoning to pay
Just sit down
beside me, and before that I go
I'll teach you a trick that perhaps you don't
know
"I'll teach you a trick that's contrary to law
Two kinds of whiskey from one
cask to draw"
The landlord being eager to learn of the plan
Straighway to the cellar with
Paddy, he ran
He soon bore a hole in a very short space
And he bade the landlord
stick his thumb on then place
He then bored another, "Place your other thumb here
While I
for a tumbler must run up the stairs"
When Campbell was mounted and well out of
sight
The hostler came in in a terrible fright
He hunted the house, high up and low
down
Half dead in the cellar, his master he found
"Go and find that bold Irishman,"
loudly he cried
"I fear he has vanished," the hostler replied
He said, "My dear landlord,
I am afraid
That Campbell the drover, a trick on you played."
@drink
@carousal
recorded by Margaret Christl and Ian Robb
collected by Helen Creighton from
Angelo Dornan of New Brunswick
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