If (Stomp) Fairport Convention

If I were rich enough To make you need me as much as I need you If I could pitch enough You'd realise what a little country bread can do Well, if my ma had come very far And if my pa was an oil-rig big-wig

Si tu dois partir Fairport Convention

I want to be with you, gal, If you want to be with me. But if you got to go, It's all right. But if you got to go, go now, Or else you gotta stay all night.

I'll Keep It With Mine Fairport Convention

You may search at any cost But how long can you search for what's not lost Everybody will help you Some people are very kind But if I can save you any time Come on give it to me I'll keep it with mine

If I Had A Ribbon Bow Fairport Convention

If I had ribbon bow to tie my hair And a gown of calico for me to wear I'd surely get a sweetheart, a prince or a king A palace home where I could have everything If I had a ribbon bow to tie my hair This

Throwaway Street Puzzle Fairport Convention

Come on now Mister, step right inside and see the show You'll like it Mister, it cures you if you're feeling low We'll take care of you, especially if you've got the dough They'll move you Mister, just

WHITE DRESS Fairport Convention

Feel how the wind blows December despair Bring me a ribbon to tie up my hair I'll be your bride go where you go All of my life you'll be my beau Kiss me and I might Put on the white dress If

No Man's Land Fairport Convention

Hey, come and make it easy Hey, come and make it black It's no use to be free If lies are all the truth they see They'll screw up what you do When you're through Hey, come and make it easy Hey, come and

MEET ON THE LEDGE Fairport Convention

who tried Blown off this mountain with the wind Meet on the ledge we're gonna meet on the ledge When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends Meet on the ledge we're gonna meet on the ledge If

Meet On The Ledge (Live) Fairport Convention

friends who tried Were blown off this mountain with the wind Meet on the ledge We're gonna meet on the ledge When my time is up I'm gonna see all my friends Meet on the ledge We're gonna meet on the ledge If

The Bonny Black Hare Fairport Convention

On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray In search of some game if the weather proved fair To see could I get a shot at the bonny black hare Oh

Pleasure & Pain Fairport Convention

Be kind to yourself when you're tired of yourself Don't go mixing the reds along with the blues The coach that I ride has a horseman who's tired The reins to his hands they are tied The one to alight, if

You Never Wanted Me Fairport Convention

hall You never wanted me and never knew me at all I haven't any picture to set before my eyes Nothing I can blame when the blues start to rise Just the memory of laughter and a living out of lies But if

Possibly Parsons Green Fairport Convention

Don't say you caught me, if you don't need me Then I'll walk away, come on make up your mind Don't try to use me or cry to confuse me cause I know your games and they're the same games as mine Feels

BOOK SONG Fairport Convention

If she knew what I've seen while I'm watching Would she know where to smile, what to say? When she leaves from her book to be with me Where's her mind as she stands while I play?

Farewell, Farewell Fairport Convention

Oh, I would, I would if welcome I were For they loathe me, ev'ryone. And will you never cut the cloth Or drink the light to be? And can you never swear a year To anyone but me?

To Althea From Prison Fairport Convention

wine we steep when healths and rafts run free Fishes that tipple in the deep know no such liberty Stone walls do not a prison make not iron bars a gate Minds innocent and quiet take that as a hermitage If

Doctor Of Physick Fairport Convention

in here So wear your relic near Doctor Monk unpacks his trunk tonight He'll have you all You fine young ladies, pure as fallen snow He'll have you all If you think upon improper things, the doctor will

Eastern Rain Fairport Convention

outside but inside we don't mind at all Shadows by the fire Slowly climb and fall Kisses fade and leave no trace Whispers vanish into space None will send me on a chase to nowhere What matters if

Reynardine Fairport Convention

Brought up in Venus' train But I'm seeking for concealment All along the lonesome plain" "Your beauty so enticed me I could not pass it by So it's with my gun I'll guard you All on the mountains high" "And if

The Journeyman's Grace Fairport Convention

won't be afraid Oh please, journeyman, help me on my way Oh please, help me please, I won't be afraid Leave my weary flesh and bone to a circle made of stone Take me to the mountains for my pleasure And if

The Plainsman Fairport Convention

If you can't show me how to die, don't tell me how to live.

What Is True? Fairport Convention

it only ever whispers part of what it knows And it's never ventured through the locks Where the brazen river flows It's the fingerprint which is never made It's the perfume of a rose And it is there if

Dear Landlord Fairport Convention

Each of us, he has his own special gifts And you know this was meant to be true, And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

Reynardine (Live) Fairport Convention

Brought up in Venus' train But I'm seeking for concealment All along the lonesome plane Your beauty so enticed me I could not pass it by So it's with my gun I'll guard you All on the mountains high And if

Danny Boy (Live At The Cropredy Festival, 1997) Fairport Convention

summer's in the meadow Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow Oh Danny boy oh Danny boy I love you so But when ye come and all the flowers are dying If

Down In The Flood Fairport Convention

Well, it's sugar for sugar And salt for salt, If you go down in the flood, It's gonna be your own fault. Oh mama, ain't you gonna miss your best friend now?

After Halloween Fairport Convention

Red and gold and Halloween have passed us by The charcoal branches lean against the rosy sky You are so far away and I could touch you if I may But don't you worry now, I'm only dreaming anyway You may

A Sailor's Life Fairport Convention

delight Leaving them behind to weep and mourn They never know when they will return "Well, there's four and twenty all in a row My true love he makes the finest show He's proper, tall, genteel withal And if

Time Will Show The Wiser Fairport Convention

My mind keeps on telling me that this is no good And my heart is aching, that tells me I should But only time will show the wiser I've fallen in love with a girl that's not mine If I take her it will hurt

Time Will Show The Wiser (Live) Fairport Convention

My mind keeps on telling me that this is no good And my heart is aching that tells me I should But only time will show the wiser I've fallen in love with a girl that's not mine If I take her it will hurt

Angel Delight Fairport Convention

coin he'd picked up You should have seen the gleam in his eye As he saw a tune he's gleaned up shined up La la la la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la la Out in the rain if

Angel Delight (Live At The Cropredy Festival, 1997) Fairport Convention

coin he'd picked up You should have seen the gleam in his eye As he saw a tune he's gleaned up shined up La la la la la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la la la Out in the rain if

Matty Groves (Live) Fairport Convention

with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light" "Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are my master's wife" "But if

Matty Groves Fairport Convention

with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light" "Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are my master's wife" "But if

Matty Groves (Take 1) Fairport Convention

with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light" "Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are my master's wife" "But if

Chelsea Morning Fairport Convention

my senses Oh, won't you stay, we'll put on a day and we'll talk in present tenses Now the curtain closes and the rainbow runs away I'll bring you incense owls by night By candle-light, by jewel-light If

Tam Lin Fairport Convention

bit above her knee And she's gone to her father as fast as go can she Well, up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild "Oh, and alas, Janet," he said, "I think you go with child" "Well, if

POLLY ON THE SHORE Fairport Convention

a dark and a-rolling eye And here am I a-bleeding on the deck and for a sweet saint must lie Farewell, my family and my friends likewise my barley too I'd never have crossed the salt sea wide if

Bonny Bunch Of Roses Fairport Convention

""Oh, mother, adieu for ever, I am now on my dying bed, If I had liv'd I'd have been brave But now I droop my youthful head.

Both Sides Now Fairport Convention

all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As ev'ry fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way But now it's just another show You leave 'em laughing when you go And if

Six Days On The Road Fairport Convention

My rigs a little old but that don't mean she's slow There's a good flame blowing from her smoke stack black as coal Well, my home town's comming in sight and if you think I'm happy you're right Six

THE HEXHAMSHIRE LASS Fairport Convention

her well her mother loves her dearer I love them better than them both but, man I can't get near her Off with the and over the moss and the mire I want to see my lass who lives in Hexhamshire If

FOTHERINGAY Fairport Convention

How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er And watched the daylight passing within her captive wall With no-one to heed her call <Interlude> The evening hour is fading within the dwindl...

ONE MORE CHANCE Fairport Convention

Calling all olive branches and laid off doves There is work to do before we say goodbye But who can see them turning to the face of love Though I hear them pleading with me, don't let us die As I s...

WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES Fairport Convention

Across the evening sky all the birds are leaving But how can they know it's time for them to go? Before the winter fire I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the ti...

Percy`s Song Fairport Convention

Bad news, bad news, come to me where I sleep" Turn, turn, turn again "Say, one of your friends is in trouble deep" Turn, turn, to the rain and the wind "Tell me the trouble, tell me once to my ear...

RISING FOR THE MOON Fairport Convention

I travel over the sea and ride the rolling sky For that's the way it is that is my fortune There are many ears to please many people's love to try And every day's begun rising for the moon There's ...

STRANGER TO HIMSELF Fairport Convention

He was a stranger to himself A spy in his own camp And his money was his health All thrown to the dust by his very own hand Yet his beauty lingered still Beyond the draining of the sand But greener...

TALE IN HARD TIME Fairport Convention

Take the sun from my heart Let me learn to despise I'll show you another who cannot tell lies <Interlude> The blind man can't see Who demands to his eyes I'll show you another who sings as he...

Knockin\' On Heven\'s Door Fairport Convention

Mama, take this badge off of me I can\'t use it anymore. It\'s gettin\' dark, too dark for me to see I feel like I\'m knockin\' on heaven\'s door. Knock, knock, knockin\' on heaven\'s door Knock, ...