Battlefield Band
Battlefield Band - Lads O‘ The Fair lyrics
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Come bonnie lass, lie near me, and let the brandy cheer ye For the road from Fife tae Falkirk's lang and cold and wet and weary My trade it is the weavin' From the bonnie toon o' Leevin And we'll drink a health to the farmers' dames Who'll buy our cloth the morn You can see them now, the lads o' the fair Lads frae the Forth and the Carrin water Working lads and lads wi' gear Lads who'll sell ye the provost's daughter Soldiers back from the German wars Peddlers up frae the boarder And lassies wi' their eye on more than the kye At the trysting fair at Falkirk Oh Geordie, lead the pony For the path is steep and stony And its three lang weeks frae the Isle o' Skye And the beasts are thin and bony We'll tak a drap o' the siller And buy ourselve's a gill or two And drink to the lads who'll buy our kye In Falkirk toon the morn You can see them now, the lads o' the fair Lads frae the Forth and the Carrin water Working lads and lads wi' gear Lads who'll sell ye the provost's daughter Soldiers back from the German wars Peddlers up frae the boarder And lassies wi' their eye on more than the kye At the trysting fair at Falkirk Oh, stand hear and I'll show ye There's the toon below ye But ye best bide here in the barn tonight For the nightwatch dinna know ye My brother, he's a ploughman And I'm for the feeing now, man And we'll drink tae the price o' the harvest corn In Falkirk toon the morn You can see them now, the lads o' the fair Lads frae the Forth and the Carrin water Working lads and lads wi' gear Lads who'll sell ye the provost's daughter Soldiers back from the German wars Peddlers up frae the boarder And lassies wi' their eye on more than the kye At the trysting fair at Falkirk Well, the work o'the weaver's over Likewise the days o' the drover And the ploughboy sits on a tractor now Too high to see the clover The working's no sae steady But the lads are aye still ready To drink the health o' the working man In Falkirk toon the morn You can see them now, the lads o' the fair Lads frae the Forth and the Carrin water Working lads and lads wi' gear Lads who'll sell ye the provost's daughter Soldiers back from the German wars Peddlers up frae the boarder And lassies wi' their eye on more than the kye At the trysting fair at Falkirk You can see them now, the lads o' the fair Lads frae the Forth and the Carrin water Working lads and lads wi' gear Lads who'll sell ye the provost's daughter Soldiers back from the German wars Peddlers up frae the boarder And lassies wi' their eye on more than the kye At the trysting fair at Falkirk