Name: The Nutmeg Tree
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Description: The album starts of with a solo acoustic version of this enigmatic little number.

The Nutmeg Tree

from The Rowan Tree by Andy Roberts

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The album starts of with a solo acoustic version of this enigmatic little number.

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Lyrics to The Nutmeg Tree

When you told me you were the king of Spain's daughter
I tell you it came as a shock
I thought of all the modest presents I bought you
It must've been hard not to mock

For I am a humble landless peasant, poor as poor can be
who dared to hope that the King of Spain's daughter might deign to marry me

Ah but when I get my land with goats are a cow they'll be milk every day for your tea
With some left over to sell in the market or exchange for a nutmeg tree.

And I'll care for that tree in pots and in tubs
and treat it with sunshine and rain
When it's grown tall and laden with fruit I'll be entitled to ask you again.

When you told me you were the king of Spain's daughter
I tell you it came as a shock

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from The Rowan Tree, released April 10, 2021

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Andy Roberts England, UK

Original and unique songs through the decades
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"contemporary folk" solo acoustic
singer songwriter style.

Influences: Roy Harper, Mike Chapman, Loudon Wainwright, Beefheart ... more

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