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Intro
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Once a year when the winter's calling
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Birds fly south and the leaves are falling down
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Just beyond the town, the meadow where a campfire's burning
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Wakes in the morning to the music of the big fairground
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Coming from the east, coming from the west
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All the gypsies are gathering
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Just another town on the road for the travelling man
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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Follow on, children, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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If I show you the way, won't you come along today?
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'Cause everyone you know will be there
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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Leave the factory, leave the field
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Word is abroad that the fair arrives today
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Come on from the dusty loom and the rusty plough
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Join the procession, I can hear it come this way
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Come and see the juggler, come and see the fiddler
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See the horses and the dancing bear
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Come and see the pretty lasses with the coloured ribbons in their hair
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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Follow on, children, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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If I show you the way, won't you come along today?
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'Cause everyone you know will be there
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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See the magic lantern and the bat and hoop-la
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Prizes for the tuppenny shy
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'All the fun of the fair', you can hear the showmen cry
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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Follow on, children, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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If I show you the way, won't you come along today?
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'Cause everyone you know will be there
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
C F
Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
C F
Follow me, boys, won't you follow me to Barnet Fair?
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me
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Follow me, boys, won't you follow me
Written by Rick Kemp/Steeleye Span