Key: Gb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
"Get down, get
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down, Love Henry," she cried.
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"And stay all night with me.
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I have gold chains, and the finest I have
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Verse 2
"I can't get down and I
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shan't get down,
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Some pretty little girl in Cornersville
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Verse 3
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He laid his head on a pillow of down.
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With a penny knife that she held
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in her hand
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She murdered mortal he.
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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"Get well, get well, Love Henry,
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" She cried,
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"Oh don't you see my own
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Come flowin' down so free?"
Verse 5
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She took him by his long yellow hair,
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She plunged him in to well water, where
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It runs both cold and deep.
Verse 6
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"Lie there, lie there,
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Love Henry," she cried,
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"Til the flesh rots off your bones.
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Some pretty little girl in Cornersville
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Will mourn for your return."
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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"Hush up, hush up, my parrot," she cried,
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The doors to your cage shall
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Verse 8
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"I won't fly down, I can't fly down
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her own true love
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Would kill a little birdlike me."
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B C#
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