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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Trad Arr. Jim Moray
Trad Arr. Jim Moray
Performer
Douglas Oates
Douglas Oates
Lead Vocals
Suzi Gage
Suzi Gage
Bansuri
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Trad Arr. Jim Moray
Trad Arr. Jim Moray
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Trad Arr. Jim Moray
Trad Arr. Jim Moray
Producer

Lyrics

My love was a rich farmer's son
When first my own tender heart he won
His love for me he did reveal
But it's little I thought of the nightingale
His parents then did not agree
That he should love a boy like me
A press gang sent and they did not fail
They pressed my love on The Nightingale
The fourteenth day November last
The wind it blew a most bitter blast
The storm did rage and the main mast failed
To the bottom he went with The Nightingale
The very day my love was lost
He appeared to me as a dismal ghost
On feathered wings to tell the tale
And sing the song of the nightingale
He says my love don't be surprised
In the Bay of Biscay my body lies
I've become the prey for some shark of whale
That was my fate on The Nightingale
I raised my head from my pillow high
This dismal ghost from em did fly
I never thought my love would sail
And end his days on The Nightingale
My father's dwelling I'll forsake
To some lonesome valley myself will take
In a shady grove then I'll bewail
And hear the song of the nightingale
Written by: Trad Arr. Jim Moray

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