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Based on the singing of George 'Pop' Maynard (b. 1872, Sussex). Was Polly a lady of easy virtue? She certainly had a 'dark and a roving eye' (and, as Sid Kipper would say, another one quite similar) and one imagines that the singer was swept up by the press whilst in Polly's company in some harbourside tavern or other. Maybe she even lured him into their clutches? None the less, he still seems to love her.

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O Come all you wild young men
A warning take by me
And never lead your single life astray
Into bad company

As I myself have done
'Twas in the merry month of May
When I was pressed by a sea captain
On board a man of war I was sent

We sailed the ocean so wide
And our bonny flag so handsome it flew
But at every evening at the setting of the sun
My Polly I did think of you.

With three ships to our every one
The enemy we did espy
Let every man stand true to his gun
For the Lord knows who must die.

Our Captain got wounded full sore
And so did the rest of his men
And our main mast rigging got scattered on board
So that we were obliged to give in.

Our decks were all spattered with blood
And so loudly the cannons they did roar
And thousands of times have I wished meself at home
All along with me Polly on the shore.

She's a tall and a slender young girl
She's a dark and a roving eye
And now here am I lying bleeding on the deck
And for her sweet sake I will die.

Here's adieu to me father and me friends
Likewise my dear old mother too.
I never should have crossed the salt sea so wide
If I had've been ruled by you.

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from Leaf On a Windy Day, released January 2, 2019
Trad, arr. K Adams
KA: vocal,
Dave Makins: guitars, mandolin, fiddle, bass, whistle, harmonium, timpani, cymbals

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Blending traditional folk music with a love of other genres- classical, jazz, folk-rock, prog-rock, pop… music, music, music…

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