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The version Damh does is very similar to the 1951 recording in the BBC archives of a mummer's performance on Flora Day in Helston, Cornwall which can be heard here.
after Damh the Bard
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Hal-an-Tow
by trad
Take the scorn to wear the horn
It was the crest when you was born
Your father's father wore it
And your father wore it too
Chorus
Hal an tow, jolly rumble O
We were up long before the day O
To welcome in the summertime,
To welcome in the May O
The summer is a- coming in
And winter's gone away O
Robin Hood and Little John
Have both gone to the fair O
And we shall to the merry green wood
To hunt the buck and hare O
Chorus
What happened to the Spaniards
That made so great a boast O?
Why they shall eat the feathered goose
And we shall eat the roast O
Chorus
The lord and lady bless you
with all their power and might O
and send their peace upon us
bring peace by day and night O
Chorus
Hal an tow x4
Chorus
Hal an tow
It was the crest when you was born
Your father's father wore it
And your father wore it too
Chorus
Hal an tow, jolly rumble O
We were up long before the day O
To welcome in the summertime,
To welcome in the May O
The summer is a- coming in
And winter's gone away O
Robin Hood and Little John
Have both gone to the fair O
And we shall to the merry green wood
To hunt the buck and hare O
Chorus
What happened to the Spaniards
That made so great a boast O?
Why they shall eat the feathered goose
And we shall eat the roast O
Chorus
The lord and lady bless you
with all their power and might O
and send their peace upon us
bring peace by day and night O
Chorus
Hal an tow x4
Chorus
Hal an tow