X:208
T: the Miller of the Dee
C: music: Old English Air
C: words: Charles Kingsley (attr.)
N: Others attribute this poem to Isaac Bickerstaffe.
N: Charles Kingley wrote another Miller of the Dee poem that may be confused with this, and also The Sands of Dee.
Q: "Quickly."
%R: jig
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2016 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
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w: 1.~There was* a jol-ly mil-ler once Lived on* the Riv-*er Dee;*
w: 2.~I live by my mill, she is to me Like pa-*rent, child,* and wife;*
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w: He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark* more blithe* than he.*
w: I would not change my sta-*tion For an-*y oth-er in life.*
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w: And* this the bur-den of his song For-ev-*er used to be:*
w: No* Law-yer, sur-geon, of doc-tor E'er had* a groat from me;*
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w: I care for no-bod-y, no, not I, and* no-bod-y cares* for me.*
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