Key: B minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
across the raging foam
He wooed a wife and he bought her home
He has wooed her for her yellow hair
His mother said he should take more care
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A weary spell she's laid on her
She'll be with child now for long
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and many's the year
That child she'll never bear
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In her bow she cries in pain
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King Willie by her bed, steady to stand
He mourns over her in vain
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And he's come back as a begging son
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The likes of which you ne 'er did see
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maimed
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There's hanging fifty silver bells in ten
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This goodly gift could be your own,
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I turn again, then she might
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bear a baby child
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Oh, of that child she'll never lie to be,
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nor from sickness will she ever be free
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and you will wed with another maid
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Another maid I'll never wed,
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another maid will never share my bed,
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I'd rather die, Willie said
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he's come back as a begging son
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girdle hung with jaws all about the middle
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At every pass that girdle's hem,
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there's hanging fifty silver bells and ten
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this goodly gift could be your own
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bear a baby child
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Nor from sickness for she'll be free.
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other maid.
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Sighing, said this weary man,
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He tore again, I wish my life were at an end.
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And often spoke old Billy Blind
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And he has told King Willie of a plan
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He's spoken in good time
You must shave her, babe,
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And you must make two eyes of glass
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Invite your mother to the christening day
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So he might hear what Jesus say
to the marketplace
And he has bought him a loaf of works
He has shaped a babe that is to nurse
And he has made two eyes of glass
And invites his mother to
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the christening day
He has stood as close as
he could stand
So he could hear what Jesus say
A babe where none could be
Who is it's undone the nine
Who is it who slew the master
Kit that ran and slept
beneath this lady's bed?
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Who let her lie to be?
Which not so braided
in this lady's locks
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It was Willie who slew the master kid that
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ran and slept beneath this lady's bed.
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It was Willie undone her left shoe,
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he let her light her be.
And now she's born a baby son,
many's the blessings
that be them upon.
you
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