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Jim Causley sang Widecombe Fair at Exeter Morris event, video Alan Quick IMG_2161
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00:01Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me your grey mare
00:04All along, down, along, out the Longley
00:07For I once to ride over to Whittigam Fair
00:11With Bill Brewer, Dan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
00:16Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
00:21Now when shall I see me your grey mare again
00:25All along, down, along, out the Longley
00:28Come Friday noon or a Saturday soon
00:31With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
00:36Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
00:41Well Friday came and Saturday soon
00:45All along, down, along, out the Longley
00:48But Tom Pearce's old mare she had not trotted home
00:51With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
00:56Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
01:01So Tom Piss, he went up to the top of the hill
01:05All along, down, along, out the Longley
01:08There he spied his old grey mare a makin' her will
01:11With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
01:16Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
01:45Well, now that Tom Pearce's old grey mare have died
01:50Oh, it's very sad that bit
01:53All along, down, along, out the Longley
01:56Tom Pearce, he sat down on a stone and he cried
01:59With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
02:04Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
02:09But this isn't the end of the shocking affair
02:12All along, down, along, out the Longley
02:15For though they be rid of the terrible career
02:19Of Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
02:24Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
02:29For when the wind whistles cold
02:33I know it's hard to imagine, get some cold whistly wind, please
02:37When the wind whistles cold
02:39On the moor of a night
02:43All along, down, along, out along, Lee
02:48Tom Pearce's old mare doth appear ghastly white
02:53With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
02:58Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
03:03And all the night long you'll hear shirkings and groans
03:06Have some shirkings and groans, please
03:09I'm not exactly sure what a shirking is, actually
03:11All along, down, along, out the Longley
03:14For Tom Pearce's old mare is a rat lid of bones
03:19With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewart, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Donald Whitton, Harry Ork
03:24Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
03:28Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all
03:32Thank you very much! Have a great day!
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