Janice Burns and Jon Doran perform Derby Ram

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Grayshott Folk Club is having two seasonal shows this year. It will mark the beginning of Advent with Janice Burns and Jon Doran, an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music and songs that tell vivid stories about the nature of life and people's place in the world.

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00:00I went to Derby upon a Christmas day It was there I met the finest ram that ever was fed on hay

00:08Well, he had four feet to walk, sir He had four feet to stand

00:14And every foot that he did have It covered a mile of land

00:19And indeed, my lads, it's true I never was known to lie

00:24And if you'd have been in Derby, you'd have seen the same as I

00:29Now the horns that grew on this ram's head They reached up to the moon

00:36And a boy went up in April And he didn't come down till June

00:41Now the horns that grew on this ram's head They grew so mighty wide

00:46That a coach and six could go betwixt With a footman by the side

00:51And indeed, my lads, it's true I never was known to lie

00:57And if you'd have been in Derby, you'd have seen the same as I

01:02Now this old ram, he had a tail It reached right down to hell

01:08And every time he waggled it It rang the old church battle

01:14And the butcher that killed this ram, sir Was up to his knees in blood

01:19And four and twenty butcher boys Drowned all in the flood

01:24And the flood, it's run for forty miles Sure, it'd run no more

01:30It turned the biggest water wheel That ever was heard before

01:35And if you'd have been in Derby, you'd have seen the same as I

01:47Now all the kings in Derby Come begging for his lies

01:52To take a bout in Derby Town For they were a football size

01:57And if you don't believe me And think it all they like

02:03Well, you go down to Derby Town And you'll see the same as I

02:08And indeed, my lads, it's true I never was known to lie

02:13And if you'd have been in Derby, you'd have seen the same as I

02:19And indeed, my lads, it's true I never was known to lie

02:24And if you'd have been in Derby Well, you go down to Derby

02:29And if you'd have been there When I see him, loss you'll see the same as I

02:33And!

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