Tonart: B minor
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Verse 1
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Oh my parents,
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gave to me good learning
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Good learning they gave to me
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They sent me off to a butcher's shop,
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a butcher for to be
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I fell in love with a nice young girl,
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she'd a dark and a roving eye
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I promised four to marry her,
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if at night by me she'd lie
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I courted her for many's
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the long month,
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six long months and more
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Till an other one attained my eye,
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And she was to despair,
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For Marianne was with child by me.
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O Wil lie, what will I do,
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For my baby yet will soon be born?
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So will you marry me?
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I went up to her parents' house
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Twenty hours of eight and nine
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I asked her for to take a walk
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Down by yon water side
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They walked it east and
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they walked it west
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And they walked it all around
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Till he's taken a knife from her to his side
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And he's punched her to the ground
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She fell down on one bended knee,
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and for mercy she did cry,
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O willy, do not murder me,
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and leave me here to die.
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He's tamed her by the milk -white hand
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And he's dragged
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her on a ram
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Until he's come to yon rushing stream
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And he's plunged her body down
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He's gone back to his
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mother's
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It's little did his mother think,
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What her only son had done.
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The question she did put to him,
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Why the bloodstains on your clothes,
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The answer he did give to her,
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Was from her bleeding nose.
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He asked it for a candle,
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for to light him up to bed
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And likewise for a handkerchief,
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for to tie around his head
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No peace, rest could this young man get
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No peace, no rest could he find
For he thought he saw the
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Approaching in his mind
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This young man he's been
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And the gallows shall be his dun e
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For the murdering of sweet Marianne
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A flower that was in bloom
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You
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