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In the month of January

from 52 Folk Songs: white by Phil Edwards

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It was in the month of January, the hills all clad with snow,
It was over hills and valleys my true love he did go.
It was there I met a fair young maid with a salt tear in her eye,
She held a baby in her arms and bitter she did cry.

“Oh, cruel was my father to bar the door to me,
And cruel was my mother, that dreadful crime to see.
Cruel was my own true love that he changed his mind for gold,
And cruel was that winter's night that pierced my heart with cold.”

For the taller that the palm tree grows, oh, the sweeter is the bark,
And the fairer that a young man speaks, oh, the falser is his heart.
Oh, he'll kiss you and embrace you till your favour he has won;
Then he'll go away and leave you all for some other one.

So come all you pretty fair maids, and a warning take by me,
Never try and build your nest at the top of a high tree,
For the green leaves they will wither and the branches all decay
And the beauty of a false young man must all soon fade away.

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from 52 Folk Songs: white, released December 5, 2011
Phil Edwards: vocal and English concertina

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