Fair Nottamon Town

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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.

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