The Riccarton Tollmans Daughter
by The Battlefield Band

Capo 3
Intro:
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-Verse-
   D                       G
As I was a walkin? through old Killie town,
       D               A
It was at the back end o? November.
   D                    G
My gaze was drawn tae a gathering o? folk,
    D                   A
All assembled by the Kilmarnock water.

-Chorus-
       Em
In the dreich winter?s morn,
  A
A game was well begun,
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The curling stain slid back and forwards.
        Em
And the breaths like clouds, 
        A
Floated upwards to the skies,
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With the whoops and cries o? the teams o? Curlers.

   D                         G
My attention was drawn tae a young, bonny lass,
       D                      A
As she stood and watched as a close observer.
   D                         G
My eyes were consumed as she followed all the play,
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And she cheered on her father, and her brother.

  Em
I gaid and I spoke, 
      A
And I tellt her my name,
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And she said she was cried Jean Alexander.
    Em
She lived wi? her folk, 
       A
At the Riccarton toll,
    Em                    G    A
And she was the tollman?s only Daughter.

-Instrumental Bridge- D,G,A  D,G,A  D,G,A  Em,G,A

       D                    G
At the end o? the game, her Father came across,
       D                     A
And he shook my hand, and he looked me over.
   D                       G
He says young man come and join us on the road
        D                    A
Then he took her arm, and we walked together.

    Em
And when we had went, 
          A
Tae their cottage by the toll,
      Em                 G           A
I was asked inside for a drink and a bladder.
    Em
And that was the start, 
       A
O? the winning o? my heart.
        Em             G         A
And the cortine of the tollman?s daughter.

-Instrumental Bridge-

         D                          G
Here?s a helf tae the good folk, o? old Killie Town,
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The engineers, and the carpet workers.
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The wabsters, the coopers, the distiller o? the dram,
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Their women folk, and their sons and daughters.

    Em            
And here?s to the winter
     A
That brought us all the snow
        Em                G       A
And the ice that froze Kilmarnock water
    Em
And here?s to the curlers,
     A
That brought me to my love,
    Em                  G    A
The Riccarton tollman?s only daughter

-Instrumental Bridge as Outro-


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