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Maid In The Calico Dress

#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #

Tabbed by Jack Dingler
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Maid In The Calico Dress
Henry Nutter

E   A   C#m  A   E  A

 EIn flowery AJuly, neath C#mComrose proud Aheights
 As the Eplovers come Adown from moor Eend
And southward the Acuckoo is C#mtaking his Aflight
And the Ecorncrakes are Adeep in the Egrass
The Aswallow and C#mswift were Aaloft in the C#mair
And the Astarling was feeding her G#myoung
The Amilkmaid was C#mtending her Acattle with G#mcare
And the Ahaymakers che-G#meri-Aly   Esung

Chorus:
Oh Aladies of C#mDublin in Asatin or Esilk
Are Apretty I C#mclearly G#mconfess
 Oh but Egive me the Amaid
Who is C#mneatly ar-Arayed
 In A Ebeautiful Acalico Edress

You may talk of the Italia ladies in vain
Or the maidens of France or Peru
You may worship the languishing beauties of spain
Or the blushing Carpathians too
But the one that I love, has the eyes like the sloe
And her cheeks are like roses in June
How graceful she slips, as she trips like the doe
And her ruby red lips are in tune

Chorus

If fortune or friendship compels me to roam
Or a thirst for some changes constrain
I’d still call the banks of old Muenster me home
And I’d sing of it’s praises again
Sweet gardens of roses or our cultured bowers
Would delight a poor soul to possess
But give me old Comrose, bedecked with wild flowers
And the maid in the calico dress

"The Maid In The Calico Dress
This delightful song has evolved through a circuitous route that spans many years. It
a poem first, written by Henry Nutter, who came from Lancashire, in the nineteenth
It endured the years and cultural changes, until it was recently set to music by Gerry 
from Oldham, Lanes, from whose singing I learned it. It's a lovely landscape of the
between a man and his woman, which I have set on the graceful slopes of the Comeragh 
in the County Waterford." - Danny Doyle
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