(Intro: C  F)


    F  C                  G
    To plough once in the winter 

            F            G
    Sowing, and again in Lent, 

    F                   C
    Sowing with as many oxen 

    G                   C
    Sowing with as many oxen 

                     G            F
    As he shall have yoked in the plough 

       C     F
    Oh yeah

       C     F
    Oh yeah 

       C             G            F  
    As he shall have yoked in the plough. 

           C  F
    Oh yeah 

       C    F
    Oh yeah

       C
    Oh yeah 



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    G       Bb C  Eb C    
    There's e--vi-de-ence 

    G       Bb C  Eb C
    There's e--vi-de-ence 


    n.c 
    There's evidence (evidence) 


    Evidence (evidence) 


    Evidence (evidence)
 
                       G 
    There's evidence (evidence!) 


    C           Am               Dm               G
    Evidence of settlements with one long village street,
 
    C                    Am                 Dm               G
    Farmsteads, hamlets, little towns - the framework was complete 

           C  Bb
    By the ti-ime ... (OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST!) 

        F                      G
    The rural framework was complete 

    n.c
    Rur-al 

    frame-work 

    wa-as 

    com-plete. 



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            B
    Oh it's written in the village rolls 

                 A7
    That "if one plough-team wants an oxen 

             E7
    And that oxen is lent 

             D                          A                  E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the looord's 

    consent. 


    Yeah

             D                          A                         E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                         E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                         E 
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                         E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                         E            
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                         E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                         E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                      E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent 

             D                          A                      E
    Then the villeins and the ploughmen got to have the lord's consent