Daily Antidote | Laurel Swift "The Martimas Time" - 8/6/24

Today, join the ‪@DailyAntidoteofSong‬ live from ‪@PinewoodsCamp‬ . On day 1588, Laurel Swift brought us "The Martimas Time", a fun ballad with a catchy chorus. Plus, an improvised birthday song for Ella Jenkins, who turns 100 today!
The Martimas Time
Chorus (repeated after each verse):
With me right fol ladle adle lal la daddy o
With me right fol ladle adle la ley
It came about the Martinmas time
When snow lay on the borders,
There came a troop of soldiers here
To take up their winter quarters.
Oh they rode up and they rode down
And they rode over the border.
There they spied a fair pretty girl
And she was the farmer’s daughter.
They made her swear a solemn oath
With a salt tear in her eye, oh,
That she would call at their quarter gates
When no-one did a spy, oh.
Well she gone to the barber shop,
And she has gone right soon, oh.
She’s made them cut her fine yellow hair
As short as any dragoon , oh.
Then she gone to the tailor shop
And dressed in soldier’s clothes, oh.
A pair of pistols down by her side
And a nice little boy was she, oh.
Then she came to the quarter gates,
It’s loudly she did call, oh,
“There comes a troop of soldiers here
And we must have lodgings all, oh!”
The quartermaster he comes out,
He gives her half a crown, oh:
“Go and find lodgings in the town,
For here there is no room, oh.”
But she drew nearer to the gates
And louder she did call, oh:
“Room, room, you gentlemen,
We must have lodgings all, oh!”
The quartermaster he comes out,
He gives her eighty pence, oh:
“Go and find lodgings some place else
For tonight there comes a wench, oh.”
She’s taken the garters from her legs,
The ribbons from her hair, oh.
She’s tied them ’round the quarter gates
As a token she was there, oh.
She drew a whistle from her side,
And blown loud and shrill, oh:
“You’re all very free with your eighty p,
But you’re not for a girl at all, oh.”
And when they knew that it was her
They tried to overtake her.
She’s clamped her spurs to her horse’s side
And she’s galloped home a maiden.
More about our song leader: laurelswift.co...
Happy 100th Birthday to Ella Jenkins! ellajenkins.com/
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