Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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My parents gave me learning,
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good learning they gave to me.
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For they sent me to a butcher's shop,
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A butcher boy to be.
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An d was there I met
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with a fair young maid,
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And I asked her for to marry me
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In the month, oh, sweet July
own mother's house
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and I asked her far to walk with me
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down by the foaming brine,
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down by the foaming brine
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we'll go down by the foreman brine
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oh it will be a pleasant walk
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down by the foreman brine
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They walked it east,
and they walked it west,
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till he pulled a knife from out of his breast
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an d he stabbed her.
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To the ground she fell upon
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her bended knees
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for I'm not prepared to die.
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But he stayed her by the
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lily -white hand,
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Down by the foaming bream,
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And with a mighty bounding push,
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Then he went back to
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his own mother's house
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But little did his mother think
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What her lonely son had done
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For he asked her for a handkerchief
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And he asked her for a candlelight
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To show him up to bed
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But no peace,
no rest could this young man get
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for he thought he saw
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approaching his bedside.
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Now the murder,
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it was soon found out,
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For the margarine, oh,
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that lies where the roses bloom.
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