Key: D# minor
Verse 1
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In Boston town by
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the
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water
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side
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A place of
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noted fame and pride
A fine young girl both
pure and chase
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Grew thick and wide around the waist
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We feed the girl on fish and bread The young girl's
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mother
to father said
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We feed the girl on
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the brunswick stew
And that is why her torso grew
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Although we
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raised the young girl well
The young girl's father
to mother did tell
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I fear our daughter has us beguiled
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I fear that she is now with child
Verse 4
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So the mother would send the girl away
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Before the dark night turn to day
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We must not let the whole town see
For we are held in high degree
Verse 5
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Parents in the parlor daughter in the wild
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Her eyes go dim
She'd been betrayed
by her own kin
She went upstairs to take her rest
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And in the night she found distress
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That night she heard her babes
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first cry
That night she knew the babe must die
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The girl in blue and bent a
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She swim in the river up
to her knees
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She drenched the hound
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in her night gown
She left the baby there to die
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So the mother and father did turn their cheek
Verse 7
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Not a word of the daughter did
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they speak
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Though slander in the way she'd grown never be
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known
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