Tonart: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Martha went down to the well,
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to where her love lay sleeping
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His coat was torn, his skin was pale,
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his face was stained from weeping
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She woke him up with a tender kiss
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and asked why he was grieving
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He said they'll never let us be,
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so I must be leaving
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For your true love I'm leav
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ing
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Oh tell me love why you must go,
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what have I done to hurt you
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What is it here that grieves you so
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and why can't my love hold you?
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He closed his eyes and he saw his father's
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face all red from screaming
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That working girl won't
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be your wife
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That's just a poet's dreaming and a young
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girl's idle scheming
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She walked him home and on the way
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His sister she lay waiting
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You callous boy, you selfish boy
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Your mother's heart is breaking
To
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Martha then she raised her hand saying
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You must go and leave him
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He's the apple on
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his father's eye
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And you are far beneath him
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Go, stupid girl,
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leave him
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All that night he stayed away
Six nights more was missing
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They found him on
the windswept moor
Death's icy hands around him
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They brought him to his
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On silken sheets they laid him
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And with his failing breath
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he prayed for
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Martha to come see him,
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and death's cold hand s to free him
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Imath, their uninvited, came
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To where her love was lying
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An orange for his milk -white skin
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And comfort in his dying
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His sister sat at his deathbed
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And would not let her near him
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But with his final breath he sighed, I'll hold you close come evening,
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and only she could hear him
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She stumbled through
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And heard the death -bell tolling
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Weak with fear and blind with grief
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She gave in to the falling
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A passing stranger caught her there,
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I hear death's angel calling
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And life by grief is freed from me,
and my poor heart is broken
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Since my sweet love was taken
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Martha went down to the well
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And saw her true love sleeping
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His coat was torn, his skin was pale
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And she lay down beside him
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In
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Bow's churchyard on a stone
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Their names obscured by weather
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Where love an d death
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They lay at last together,
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their true love sealed forever
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you
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