{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos519.htm","path":"bos/bos519.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos519.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\n \n \n * \n \n NOTTAMUN TOWN \n -Traditional \n \n In Nottamun Town, in Nottamun Town \n Not a soul would look up not a soul would look down\n Not a soul would look up, not a soul would look down\n To show me the way to fair Nottamun Town\n \n I bought me a horse t'was called a grey mare\n Grey mane and grey tail and green stripe on her back\n Grey mane and grey tail and green stripe on her back\n Weren't a hair upon her that was not coal black\n \n She stood so still threw me to the dirt\n She tore at my hide, she bruised my shirt\n From saddle to stirrup I mounted again\n and on my ten toes I rode over the plain\n \n When I got there no one did I see \n they all stood around me just looking at me\n i called for a cup to drive gladness away\n And stifle the dust for it rained the whole day\n \n And the King and the Queen and the company more\n Came a riding behind and a walking before\n Come a stark naked drummer beating a drum\n With his hands in his bosom came marching along\n \n Sat down on a hard hot cold frozen stone\n Ten thousand stood round me but I was alone\n Took my heart in my hand to keep myself warm\n Ten thousand was drowned that never was born\n \n * \n \n \n 2310","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Nottamun Town","type":"page"}