Wagoner's Lad-Joan Baez

[ti:Wagoner's Lad]
[ar:Joan Baez]
[al:Best Of]
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[00:00.61]Oh hard is the fortune of all woman kind
[00:07.35]She's always controlled she's always confined
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[00:13.96]Controlled by her parents untill she's a wife
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[00:20.52]A slave to her husband the rest of her life
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[00:27.13]Oh i'm just a poor girl my fortune is sad
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[00:33.26]I've always been courted by the wagoner's lad
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[00:39.31]He's courted me daily by night and by day
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[00:45.47]And now he is loading and moving away
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[00:51.91]Oh my parents don't like him because he is poor
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[00:58.27]They say he's not worthy of entering my door
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[01:03.88]He works for a living his money's his own
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[01:09.47]And if they don't like it they can leave him alone
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[01:15.91]Oh your horses are hungry go feed them some hay
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[01:22.21]Then sit down by me as long as you may
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[01:28.46]My horses aint hungry they won't eat your hay
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[01:34.57]So fare thee well darling i'll be on my way
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[01:40.38]Oh your wagon needs greasing your whip is to mend
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[01:46.80]Then sit down by me as long as you can
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[01:53.60]My wagon is greasy my whip's in my hand
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[02:01.15]So fare thee well darling no longer to stand