The Lass of Richmond Hill
On Richmond Hill there lives a lass
More bright than May-day morn
Whose charms all other maids’ surpass
A rose without a thorn.
This lass so neat, with smiles so sweet
Has won my right good will
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.
Ye zephyrs gay that fan the air
And wanton thro’ the grove
O whisper to my charming fair
“I die for her I love.”
This lass so neat, with smiles so sweet
Has won my right good will
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.
arr. by Jeremy Barlow artists John Potter & Deborah Roberts from the album English National Songs – available to purchase from Amazon.
Lillibulero
There was an old farmer, in Sussex did dwell
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He had an old wife, and she gave him hell
Lillibulero bullen a lar
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The devil he came to him at the plough
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Says, “I want your wife and I want her now”
Lillibulero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
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Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
So the devil he hoisted her up on his hump
Lillibulero bullen a lar
And down to hell with her he did jump
Lillibulero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
Two little devils were playing with chains
Lillibulero bullen a lar
She took up a stick and she knocked out their brains
Lillibulero bullen a lar
Two more devils looked over the wall
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They said, “Take her back or she’ll murder us all”
Lillibulero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
So the devil he hoisted her back on his hump
Lillibulero bullen a lar
And back up to earth with her he did jump
Lillibulero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
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“Now I’ve been a devil the whole of my life
But I never knew Hell till I met your wife”
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
Lero lero bullen a lar
Lero lero Lillibulero
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