Key: G minor
Verse 1
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Granny Green was stooped
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as a windblown branch
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She lived high in the bramble forest
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Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right,
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she came down to our little village
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She brought blackberries and willow bark,
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mandrake root and mushrooms
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And it was said she spoke
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the tongue of birds
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And un derstood the
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river's whispers
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by a golden lizard they were bitten
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And those sweet girls lay stiff in their beds like
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frozen ice up on the branches
Verse 2
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Granny Green mixed a tonic for their
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ills but it was such a bitter tonic
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All who drank began to dance and
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could not stop their dancing
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one sinful step
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If that old crone had not bewitched us
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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How we leaped and pranced and cackled,
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the whole town writhing madmen
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And so desperate grew some to still their feet
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they dove into the raging river
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Still we danced on day and night till our
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fine clothes were torn and ragged
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And crying out, "oh, Lord,
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make us stop" we danced naked round the chapel
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Verse 4
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How Granny laughed to see such sin
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"It's just wa ter," she said,
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But all cried out, "she lies,
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she surely lies" and chased her deep into the bramble
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But like the four winds
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Rolling in leaves and naked 'neath the trees
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we lost the way back to our village
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But I swear we were all pure
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of heart till that old crone did bewitch us
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And I know we will all go home,
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when the good lord returns to save us
Outro 1
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