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Come All You Garners Gay

from Swallow the Anchor by SaltyPaws

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A delightful, traditional English folk song. From the genre of songs warning against promiscuity and longing for love, it uses gardening metaphors! "Garners" are northern English slang for "Gardeners" and "Gay" of course means "happy", although we do have our spin...

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.G D7 G
Come all you Garners Gay,
. D7 G
That are just now in your prime
. C G Am G D7 C
I wish I was in my bonny lad's arms
.D7 G
Where I've been many a time
.D7 G
Where I've been many a time,
.D7 G
Where I've been many a time
. C G Am G D7 C
I wish I was in that bonny lad's arms
.D7 G
Where I've been many a time.

The rose blooms red in the Spring
Awakening love anew.
I know when I find the flower for me
My love, he will be true.

Green willows they will twist,
Green willows they will twine
A strong young lad should sturdy, sturdy be
Not soft as a yellow pine.

Once I had thyme enough
To flourish night and day
Until that lad, that bonny, bonny lad
Come and stole all my thyme away.

So now my whole thyme is gone,
And I cannot plant any new
For the very same place where the old thyme grew,
It's all over running, running rue.

Oh the rue, that running, running rue,
That's not the flower for me
I will pluck up all that running, running rue
And plant down the sturdy oak tree.

Stand you fast, stand you fast, sturdy oak,
Stand you fast, don't deceive or lie
I will prove as true to my own true love
As the stars prove true to the sky.

Beware, young men, beware;
Beware, and heed my rhyme;
And see that you keep your garden well:
Let no one steal your thyme.

I really like drinking beer,
'Though sometimes I drink some wine
And it's far better sleeping in my bonny lad's arms
Where I've been many a time.

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from Swallow the Anchor, released September 30, 2021

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When you think of wandering minstrels, do you ever think they might live on a boat? SaltyPaws is a sailing acoustic duo, living aboard their catamaran, sailing and singing the Atlantic eastern seaboard. You'll hear guitar and 5 string banjo, spiced with harmonica and concertina. Wherever the boat is in port, you'll find Bentley and Jim joining a jam, at an open mic, or busking a street corner. ... more

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