Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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will you stay then about my father's house
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And walk into these gardens green?
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In my arms I'll thee embrace
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mouth, make sport and
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for your kindness, trust me,
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I may not stay with thee
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Verse 2
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For I have killed the Laird Johnstone,
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I care not for the feud
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My loyal heart did still incline,
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he was my father's death
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By day and night I did pursue and
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all on him revenged to be
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Now I have gotten what I long
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I may not stay with thee
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Verse 3
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Adieu Dumfries, my proper place,
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adieu, adieu Caerlaverock fair
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Adieu my castle of the Threave,
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and all my buildings there
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Adieu my lady and my only joy, trust me,
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I may not stay with thee."
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Verse 4
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Now he has taken a good gold ring
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whereat hang signets three
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Says, "Take you this, my own dear love,
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and aye, have mind of me
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"But if you have another lord
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while I am o'er the sea
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His life is but a three day's lease,
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trust me, I may not stay with thee."
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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The wind was fair, the ship was clear,
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the good Lord went away
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The most part of his friends were there
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to give him fair convoy
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presenting in that good Lord's sight
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Now he is over the floods so grey,
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Lord Maxwell's taken his last good
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night
Outro 1
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