Fairport ConventionNottamun Town (What we did on our holydays)By Marcel VeltmanStrange lyrics, apparently based on Jeronymus Bosch's painting 'The last ordeal'. Run asearch on the web, and you'll land on a homepage of paganists, who consider it a sacredtext. You will also find that their version is longer. It is dead simple, just strum Dmall the way through. This if you have a band around. Doing it on my own, I keep a dronegoing by lightly striking a bass of A, and ad some spice pulling off and hammering on theA note on the third string on alternating measures. I rest three measures while singing acapella between ( and ), do the intro, the in betweens and the outro with a Dsus4, Dm,Dsus2 to Dm sequence and finish the song off with the Dm bent high for an eerie effect.If this not raises the spirits of the earth, find someone familiar with DADGAD tuning forsome soloing.Dm, Dsus4, Dm, Dsus2, Dm, Dm/ADmIn Nottamun town not a soul would look upNot a soul would look up, not a soul would look downNot a soul would look up, not a soul would look down( )DmTo show me the way to fair Nottamun townAnd the king and the queen and the company moreCame walking behind and a riding beforeCome a stark naked drummer beating a drumWith his hand on his bosom came riding alongSat down on a hard hot cold frozen stoneTen thousand stood round me but I was aloneTook my heart in my hand to keep myself warmTen thousand was drowned that never was born(Instrumental part)(Repeat first verse)
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