Name: BL08 Pallaver
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Channel: Martin Stirrup
Description: "BL08 Pallaver" is a song by martin stirrup. A 'neotraditional' folk song...

BL08 Pallaver

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A 'neotraditional' folk song...

folk traditional

martin stirrup

Singer-songwriter, arranger and producer: acoustic contemporary folk but ranging into rock/blues/country/jazz/humour...all very eclectic, I'm afraid!

Martin Stirrup Singer/songwriter An old folkie who got back into it... These days I sing and play guitar(s) and other stringed instruments, then score and orchestrate where appropriate. My taste becomes increasingly eclectic ranging from finger-picked folk through country to soft rock mixed in with a few more alternative and eccentric numbers, including the odd novelty foxtrot...

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #18

Peak in subgenre #6

Author

Martin Stirrup

Rights

Martin Stirrup

Uploaded

September 22, 2021

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.3 MB • 320 kbps • 3:10

Lossless

WAV 32.0 MB

Story behind the song

Every so often a 'neotraditional' folk song develops when I'm writing... here's a tale of a drunken sailor and the fate that befalls him..

Lyrics

BL 08 Palaver

(played as Am  GD  AmAm  GC  D   picked   (CAPOT 2 SO IN Bm!))
Bm  AE  BmBm  AD  E X4
I met a girl called Jenny
When I'd had one or two too many
And I'd stopped to spend a penny
In the gutter by her door
I think I took her fancy though
For the life of me I can't
Why I didn't make her ansy
As I Jimmied on the floor

She said she'd give me whisky
But I thought it rather risky
 I was feeling rather frisky
She could see what's on my mind
So she said
If you think you'd rather
We could cut all the palaver
And go off to bed and charver
If you feel so inclined.

( G  DC    D   G  DEm G  DC    D   G  DEm Am7G  CAPOT 2 SO)
 A  ED   E  A  EF#m A  ED    E   A  EF#m Bm7A

So for all you roistering fellows As you roar into the night
For all your drunken bellows Hope for luck to see you right
So for all you roistering fellows Be prepared to pay the price
For all your drunken bellows  You're as vulnerable as mice vulnerable as mice

So enchanted by her offer I agreed to fill her coffer
I could not be a scoffer To such a kindly maid
She led me down an alley Acting jovial and pally
But she turned out as a scally And at last I was betrayed

She kissed me and she bit meAs carefully she dipped me
Then with something hard she hit meAnd everything went black
I woke up feeling oldShivering in the cold
She'd taken all my goldAnd the coat from off my back

So for all you roistering fellowsLearn a lesson here from me
For all your drunken bellowsYou may pay this penalty
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