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Songs of the Ridings by F. W. (Frederic William) Moorman
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1. Shelter. 2. Earned,
3. Lanes 4. Workhouse 5. Fledged




Cambodunum


Cambodunum is the name of a Roman station, situated on a farm at Slack,
on the hills above Huddersfield.


Cambodunum, Cambodunum,
how I love the sound o' t' name!
Roman sowdiers belt a fort here,
gave th' owd place its lastin' fame.

We've bin lords o' Cambodunum
for well-nigh eight hunderd yeer;
Fowk say our fore-elders
bowt it of a Roman charioteer.

Ay, I know we're nobbut farmers,
mowin' gerse an' tentin' kye,
But we're proud of all we've stood for
i' yon ages that's gone by;

Proud of all the slacks we've drained,
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