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T:Poor Old Horse
B: Songs and Ballads of Northern England, Walter Scott Ltd
Z:John Stokoe
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
Q:1/4=100     %Tempo
M:4/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:C
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w:My Cloth-ing once was lin-sey wol-sey fine, 
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w:My hair un-link't, and my coat it did shine. 
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w:But now in o-pen fields I'm forc'd for to go, 
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w:To face the cold win-ter and the  hail-storm and the snow
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w: Cry-ing, "Poor old horse_ O poor_ old_ horse."