| Sleeping in my bed
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| Strange thoughts a-running through my head
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| And I dreamed you were
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| Playing with my hair
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| Fine fine sparrow, fine fine horseman
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| Rain falls and the wind roars
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| All the folks are indoors
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| We came through a ford
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| Riding over the moors
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| Fine fine sparrow and a fine fine horseman
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| Your dreams among my dreams
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| Blue seas amongst sunbeams;
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| Shades of yellow, shades of green
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| These are your dreams among my dreams
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| Fine fine sparrow, fine fine horseman
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| Morning to you, farming man
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| Here’s to your heart, your family and land
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| I’ll pay down a ring and a gold band
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| On a field for a ride around
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| For a fine fine sparrow, a fine fine horseman
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| Morning likewise, maiden and man
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| My family’s dead, my heart is in the ground
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| I have no land
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| This is no time for a farming man
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| Nor a fine fine sparrow, or a fine fine horseman
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| Sleeping in my bed |