Key: B minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In Britain,
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Tom, Dad and Luke, the farmer
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Who had two sons and a daughter dear,
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By day and night they were contriving
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To fill their parents' hearts with fear.
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One brother said unto the other,
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I think our servant courts our sister dear.
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I'll put an end to all the courtship,
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I'll send him silent to his grave.
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They asked him to go a -hunting
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Without any fear or strife
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And these two bold and wicked villains
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They took away this
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young man's life
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And in the ditch there was no water
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Where only bush and briars grew
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They could not hide the bloody slaughter,
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So in the ditches, body they threw.
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When they returned at
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home from hunting,
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She asked for her seventh man.
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I ask because I see you whisper
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So brothers, tell me if you can
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Oh sister, sister, you do offend me
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Because you so examined me
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We've lost him where
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we've been a -hunting
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No more of him we could not see
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As she lay dreaming on her pillow
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She thought she saw her heart's delight
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By her bedside, as she lay weeping,
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He was dressed all in his bloody gold.
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Don't weep for me, my dearest jewel,
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Don't weep for me, nor care a pine,
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For your two brothers killed me cruel,
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In such a place you made me find.
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As she arose the very next morning,
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With heavy sigh and bitter groan,
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The only love that she admired,
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She found in the ditch where he
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was thrown.
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The blood upon his lips was drying,
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Her tears were salt as any brine.
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She sometimes kissed him,
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sometimes cried,
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Here lies the dearest love of mine.
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Three days and nights she did sit by him,
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And her poor heart was filled with woe,
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Till cruel hunger crept upon her,
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And homeward she then did go.
When she returned that to her brothers,
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Sister, what makes you look so thin?
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Brother, don't you ask the reason,
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And for his sake ye shall be hung.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBm D A E F#m
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