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Artist: Steeleye Span
Canonical path: /steeleye-span/some-rival
Related lyric paths: 6
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Some Rival
Read Some Rival lyrics by Steeleye Span on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Some Rival
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Some rival has stolen my true love away
So I in old England no longer can stay
I will swim the wide ocean around my fair breast
To find out my true love, the one I love the best
And when I have found out my joy and delight
I will welcome him kindly by day and by night
For the bells shall be ringing and the drums make a noise
For to welcome my true love with ten thousand joys
Here's a health to all lovers that are loyal and just
Here's confusion to the rival that lives in distrust
For it's I'll be as constant as a true turtle dove
And it's never will I prove false to my love
Some rival has stolen my true love away
So I in old England no longer can stay
I will swim the wide ocean around my fair breast
To find out my true love, the one I love the best
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Steeleye Span performs "Some Rival", and this lyric page sits inside the Steeleye Span catalog on LyroVerse.
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