Key: B major
Verse 1
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It was early one morning,
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young Willie arose
bedside he'll go
Saying, Comrade, Lyle
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Comrade, let nobody know
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It is a fine morning
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and the bedding will go
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The two of them walked on
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till they came to a lake.
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was the keeper of game.
He sorely advised them
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to turn back again,
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but no island found
Comrade, Lyle, comrade,
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don't you venture in
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For there's deep and false waters
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in the lake of Colpin.
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It was early that morning
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And up to his mother's
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bedside she did go,
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Saying, Mother, O Mother,
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That young Willie was floating
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It was early that morning,
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his mother came there
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With the wringing of her fingers
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and the tearing of her hair
Saying, Murder, oh murder,
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is there anybody, boy,
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to save my darling boy?
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It was early that morning,
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his uncle came there,
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And swam round the lake
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like a man in despair.
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Sing, where was he drowned,
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There he is, deep and false waters,
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in the lake of cold pain.
cause to complain,
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She will never meet
with her true love again.
For to there in the morning
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The day of his funeral
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To see four and twenty young men,
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they all dressed in white.
They carried him on their shoulders,
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till they laid him in the clay,
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and then walked away.
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