Name: Post & Rail
Duration: P00H04M35S
Description: From an anonomous ballad sheet (probably early 19th century as mantraps [except in houses] were outlawed in 1827) regarding commons enclosures in Nottingham. I wrote the melody and Jo wrote a tune to tag on the end.

Post & Rail

from On Every Street Corner by Paul Gill

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From an anonomous ballad sheet (probably early 19th century as mantraps [except in houses] were outlawed in 1827) regarding commons enclosures in Nottingham. I wrote the melody and Jo wrote a tune to tag on the end.

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You freemen all of Nottingham come listen to my song
I trust it now will please you it will not last for long
Its of a great enclosure that now is laying out
So now my lads of Nottingham mind what you are about

Your rights and also liberties I'd have you to revere
And look unto posterity I think them always dear
To us and to our children by the Charter that prevails
So now my lads united be and have no posts or rails

There's vile mantraps and spring- guns set on every piece of land
With threatened prosecutions if on the ground you stand
Yet since my boys we've liberty, now let it far prevail
And spurn at those that do propose the fence of post and rail

Let's suffer no encroachments upon our land to be
But to repel such tyranny lets ever now agree
Let neither house nor stable upon it for to stand
But let every brave free man enjoy his right to land

See Reynard's now unkenneled, he strides along the field
We'll chase him til he's tired and force him for to yield
For when our blood is roused our spirits never fail
We'll close pursue the sordid crew and have no post or rail

There's Diamond Brave and Captain Flash don't join us in the pack
They'll skip and fawn and jump about when once the whip does crack
When once the chase is over let harmony prevail
We'll drink to those that do oppose the plan of of post and rail

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from On Every Street Corner, released June 1, 2003
Words- Anon Music- P. Gill & J. Hamilton
Arranged- P. Gill, J. Hamilton & J. O'Leary

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