X:620240
T:GB/6b/24 O Madam I'll Present You
T:Version 1 of 2
C:Sung by Mr. Woods, Tidenham, Norfolk, December 1911
C:Collected by R Vaughan Williams and GSK Butterworth
F:http://archives.vwml.org/record/GB/6b/24
Z:Transcribed by Simon Furey and Lewis Jones
L:1/8
Q:"Editorial suggestion" 1/4=120
M:4/4
K:G
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w: O Ma-dam, I'll pre-sent you a fine coach and six, Four black hor-ses as black as an-y jet, If
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w: you will walk a-broad with me, If you will walk a-broad with me.
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W:
W:1. O Madam I'll present you a fine coach and six,
W: Four black horses as black as any jet,
W: If you will walk abroad with me,
W: If you will walk abroad with me.
W:
W: 2. O I won't accept your fine coach and six, (etc.)
W:
W: 3. O Madam I'll present you a fine easy chair,
W: To set in the garden and take the morning air, If you... (etc.)
W:
W: 4. O I won't accept... (etc.)
W:
W: 5. O Madam I'll present you a fine silken gown,
W: Four yards long all a-trailed on the ground,
W: If you... (etc.)
W:
W: 6. O I won't accept... (etc.)
W:
W: 7. O Madam I'll present you a fine gold watch,
W: To hang by your side to tell you what's the time,
W: If you... (etc.)
W:
W: 8. O I won't accept... (etc.)
W:
W: 9. O Madam I'll present you the key of my chest,
W: And all my gold jewels and jewels I possess,
W: If you... (etc.)
W:
W: 10. O I won't accept... (etc.)
W:
W: 11. O Madam I'll present you the key of my heart,
W: And married we will be and never never part,
W: If you... (etc.)
W:
W: 12. O I will accept... (etc.)
W:
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%%text  Editorial notes: Lucy Broadwood has annotated this MS, first by crossing out Butterworth's title
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%%text  of "The Keys of Heaven"and writing in "No! It isn't. -LEB"  and she adds a the following note: 
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%%text Please don't call this "The Keys of Heaven" which don't come into this version and is merely
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%%text  the title of my particular version in 'County Songs' which does turn on the Keys of Heaven. 
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%%text "Madam I present you" is the title that usually covers this class of song.
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%%text If any songs are to be omitted I should leave this out as the song is in 
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%%text most nursery-rhyme books in similar versions (Halliwell, Chambers, etc. etc. etc.)