Key: D major
Verse 1
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Get down, get down young Henry Lee
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And stay the night with me
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The very best lodging that I can afford
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Will be a fair bed for thee
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For the girl that I have in that merry grey land
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I love far better than they
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She leaned herself against the fence
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Just for a kiss or two
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With a little penknife held in her hand
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She plugged him through and through
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Come, all you ladies in the town
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For this diamond ring held in my hand
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I never will forsake
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Some take him by his lily -white hands
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Some take him by his feet
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We'll throw him in this deep, deep well,
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More than one hundred feet.
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Lie there, lie there, young Henry, lay,
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Till the flesh drops from your bones,
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Will wait for your return
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Fly down, fly down, you little bird
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And lie on my right knee
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Your cage will be of purest gold
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Indeed, of ivory
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Well, I can fly down, and I won't fly down
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And lie on your right knee
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Would kill a little boy like me
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Oh, if I had my banded bow,
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my arrow, and my string
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I'd pierce a tart so near your heart
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Your warble would be in vain
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Well, if you had your banded bow
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I'd fly away to that merry Greenland
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and tell what I have seen.
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