X:620130
T:GB/6b/13 [The Great Bell of Lincoln]
C:Sung by Mr. George Knight, Horsham, Sussex, April 1907
C:Collected by GSK Butterworth
F:http://archives.vwml.org/record/GB/6b/13
Z:Transcribed by Simon Furey and Lewis Jones
L:1/4
M:3/4
Q:"(Editorial suggestion)" 1/4=120
K:C
C/C/ F F | G E C | C A A | A2 c | G G G |
G E C | C A A | A2 G | E G G | c G E | F G A |
c2 A | G E C | F D D | E C C | C3 |]
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%%text Butterworth note: To the tune of the above*, Mr Knight sang also the following health song:-
W:
W: The Great Bell of Lincoln is broken in her frame,
W: And she must be mended before she rings again,
W: With new frame and new wheel, new clipper and new strings,
W: O turn the bell over, hark, hark, how she rings.
W:
%%text The last line refers to the reversing of the drinking horns
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%%text after the health is drunk. -GSKB
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%%text *i.e. GB/6b/12; the tunes of GB/6b/12 and GB/6b/13 are the same. -Ed.