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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