X:92011830
T:RVW2/1/183 Will the Weaver
F:http://www.vwml.org/record/RVW2/1/183
C:Mrs. Norton, West Wratting, Cambridgeshire, 1908
Z:Transcribed by Simon Furey and Lewis Jones
L:1/8
Q:"(Editorial suggestion)" 1/4=120
M:4/4
K:C
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w: "O neigh-bour, O neigh-bour I'll tell you_ true, who_ I saw with your wife just now.
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w: I saw she and Will the weav-er might-y free and close to-geth-er all 
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w: at the thresh-old of your_ door. They both_ went in, I saw them no more."
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w: In the door her|hus- band ent- ered|In the door he bold- ly vent- ured. Un- 
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w: to his wife made this re-*ply "Fetch me_ some beer for I'm_ a-dry."
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W: 1 "O neighbour, O neighbour I'll tell you true,
W: "Who I saw with your wife just now.
W: "I saw she and Will the weaver 
W: "Mighty free and close together 
W: "All at the threshold of your door.
W: "They both went in, I saw them no more."
W: 
W: 2 In the door the husband entered,
W: In the door he boldly ventured.
W: Unto his wife made this reply,
W: "Fetch me some beer for I'm a-dry."
W: 
W: 3 The he done his best endeavour
W: For to find out Will the weaver.
W: He searched the rooms and chambers round
W: But never a soul there could be found.
W: 
W: 4 So up the chimby bar he gazéd
W: There he sat like one amazéd,
W: That wicked soul that he saw there
W: Sat upon the chimby bar.
W: 
W: 5 Then he kindled up the fire
W: For to please his own desire.
W: His wife cried out with a free good will,
W: "Husband, husband, a man you´ll kill!"
W: 
W: 6 "Although I am your (l)awful wife, 
W: "Take him down and spare his life."
W: Dow the chimby bar he took him,
W: And most wildly he did shuck him;
W: All as he shucked him these words he spoke:
W: "Come here no more to spoil my smoke!"
W: 
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%%same longer tune, while verses 2-5 are sung to the shorter tune.
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%%Note that the editors could not resist repeating the original notator's 
%%correction to the Freudian slip in verse 6.
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