Excerpt from The Sword Dances of Northern England, Vol. 1: Songs and Dance Airs

Collected and Arranged by Cecil J. Sharp.ii. 'tis not for your gold or your silver, nor yet for the gain of your gear, But we come just to take a week's pleasure, to welcome the incoming year. My lads, they are all fit for action, with spirits and courage so bold, They are born of a noble extraction, their fathers were heroes of old.

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