The Oak and the Ash (North Country Maid), folk song

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The King's Singers are a British a cappella, two-time Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble who celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2008. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars in 1968. In the United Kingdom, their popularity peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. Thereafter they began to reach a wider international audience, appearing frequently on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the U.S. In 1987, they were prominently featured as guests on the Emmy Award winning ABC-TV special Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas. In February 2009 their CD, Simple Gifts, won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. In February 2012 they won Best Choral Performance at the 54th Grammy Award… more »

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2003

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A  North Country maid up to  London had strayed, 
 C  B  
Alt hough with her nature it  did not agree, 
 G  D  
Which  made her repent, and so  bitterly lament, 
 Em  B7  Em  B7  
Oh I  wish once a gain for the  North Coun try. 

Chorus:

 G  Em  Am7  D  
Oh the  oak and  the  ash and the  bonnie ivy  tree, 
 Em  B7  Em  D  Em  
They  flourish at  home in my  own  coun try. 

O fain would I be in the North Country,
Where the lads and lasses are making of hay;
There should I see what is pleasant to me,
A mischief light on them entic'd me away!

I like not the court, nor the city resort,
Since there is no fancy tor sucn maids as me;
Their pomp and their pride I can never abide,
Because with my humor it does not agree.

How oft have I been in the Westmoreland green,
Where the young men and maidens resort for to play,
Where we with  delight, from morning till night,
Could feast it and frolic on each holiday.

The ewes and their lambs, with the kids and their dam:
To see in the country how finely they play;
The bells they do ring, and  the birds they do sing,
And the fields and the gardens are pleasant and gay.

At wakes and at fairs, being freed of all cares,
We there with our lovers did use for to dance;
Then hard hap had I, my ill fortune to try,
And so up to London, my steps to advance.

But still I perceive, I a husband might have,
If I to the city my mind could but frame;
But I'll have a lad that is North Country bred,
Or else I'll not marry, in the mind that I am.

A maiden I am,  and a maid I'll remain,
Until my own country again do I see,
For here in this place I shall ne'er  see  the face
Of him that's allotted my love  for to be.

Then farewell my daddy, and farewell my mammy,
Until I do see you, I nothing but mourn;
Rememb'ring my brothers, my  sisters, and others,
In less than a year I hope to return.

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