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This song is also known as “Nottamun Town” with lyrics copyrighted by Jean Ritchie. These lyrics are from 1910. (source)
Lyrics
(American folk song)
As I went down to Nottamon fair
I rode a stone horse they called the gray mare,
She had a green list down her back,
And there wasn’t a hair but what was coal black.
She stood still, but she threw me in the mud,
She daubed my hide and bruised my shirt,
From saddle to stirrup I mounted her again,
And on my ten toes rode over the plain.
I met the king and the queen and a company more
A-riding behind and walking before,
And there was a drummer a-beating his drum,
With his heels in his ass a-marching along.
I asked them the way to fair Nottamon town,
They were so mad not a soul look-ed down
They were so mad not a soul look-ed down
To tell me the way to fair Nottamon town.
See also
- Subject: horses
- Meter: 9/8
- Rhythm: ties
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: l,drms
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody

