There is A Tavern- Emma Vickers (Lanc) 1963 Hamer
[From a recording made by Fred Hamer in Autumn 1963 that he printed in his 1967 EFDS book of English folk songs, Garners Gay. This recording was included in 1989 on the EFDSS cassette The Leaves of Life: The Field Recordings of Fred Hamer and in 1998 on the EFDSS anthology A Century of Song.
R. Matteson 2017]
There Is a Tavern in the Town- sung by Emma Vickers from Lancashire.
1. There is an tavern in yonder town,
Where my false love goes and sits him down,
He pulls on his knee,
Oh don't you think that's grief to me?
2. A grief, a grief, and I'll tell you why,
Because she has more gold than I,
The gold will waste, and her beauty will blast,
And then, poor girl, she'll come like me at last.
3. He courted me when mu apron tied low,
4. There's a black bird in yonder tree,
5. Now all young girls be advised by me,
6. Mt heart is weary of all this grief,
7. Dig me my grave both long wide and deep,
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