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Barnet Fair Lyrics by Steeleye Span

Sails of Silver

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Once a year when the winter's calling
Birds fly south and the leaves are falling down
Just beyond the town, the meadow where a campfire's burning
Wakes in the morning to the music of the big fairground

Coming from the east, coming from the west, all the gypsies are gathering
Just another town on the road for the travelling man

Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
Follow on children won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
If I show you the way won't you come along today?
Everyone you know will be there
Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to baRnet Fair

Leave the factory, leave the field
Word is abroad that the fair arrives today
Come on from the dusty loom and the rusty plough
Join the procession, i can hear it come this way

Come and see the juggler, come and see the fiddler
See the horses and the dancing bear
Come and see the pretty lasses with the coloured ribbons in their hair

Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
Follow on children won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
If I show you the way won't you come along today?
Everyone you know will be there
Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair

See the magic lantern and the batt and hoop-la
Prizes for the twopenny shy
"All the fun of the fair" you can hear the showmen cry

Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
Follow on children won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
If I show you the way won't you come along today?
Everyone you know will be there
Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair

About “Barnet Fair” by Steeleye Span

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"Barnet Fair" appears on "Sails of Silver".

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