Key: C major•
Verse 1
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Lord Lovell,
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he stood at his castle gate
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Combing his milk -wipes deep
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Lady Nancy Bell, come a -ridin' by
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Wishing her lover good speed,
good speed
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And a wishin' her lover good speed
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Where are you goin', Lord Lovell, she says
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Where are you goin', says she
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I'm goin' a -ridin' an d see,
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Strange countries for to see
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To see, strange countries for to see
When will you be back,
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Am
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in a year or two or three or more, and I'll return to thee,
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to thee, and I'll return to thee.
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He had not been gone but
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a year and a day,
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strange thoughts came in his head.
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Lady Nancy Bell
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Asleep as she was dead, was dead,
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Asleep as she was dead
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He mounted on his milk -white steed
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And there he heard the bells
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a -ringin' morning all around, around,
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and a -mornin' all around.
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Oh, what is the matter,
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Lord Lovell, he says,
and who is dead, says he?
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A lady is dead, Miss Nancy Bell,
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they say she was kin to thee, to thee,
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they say she was kin to thee
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go open her coffin
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Lord Lovell he says pull
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down to me her shroud
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that I may kiss her gay cold lips
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and the tears come trinklin down down
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and the tears come trinklin down
Go dig my grave, Lord Lovell,
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he says, dig my grave, says he,
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I am not long in this world
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to live for the loss, my love, of thee, of thee,
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for the loss, my love, of thee.
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They buried Lady Nancy in
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the old churchyard,
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Lord Lovell in the choir,
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And from her grave grew a red, rose,
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And from his a briar, a briar,
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And from his a briar.
They grew and they grew
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in the old churchyard
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to the wonder of the town.
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They would have been there until this day
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if the sexton had not cut them down, down,
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if the sexton had not cut them down.
Outro 1
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