Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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It was early one morning,
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young Leonard arose
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And off to his cousin's
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let nobody know
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Tears of fine summer's morning
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to the lakes let us go
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till they came to a lane
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When who should they meet
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but a keeper of game?
Saying turn back young Leonard,
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do not venture in
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For there's deep and false water
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in the lake of marsh green
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They walked on together
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till they came to a lake
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Young Leonard took off his clothes,
he swam in twines round
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He said, it's deep and
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false water,
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and I'm sinking down
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Saying, cousin, lovely cousin,
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It was deep and false water,
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and young Leonard was drowned
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That very same evening,
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Straight to her mother's chamber,
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straight to her she goes.
I dreamed a sad dream
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about Leonard last night.
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He was dressed in a shroud,
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in a shroud of snow white.
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And that very same evening,
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Leonard's mother came in,
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her ringing her hands
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saying woe is thee our young
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For there's deep and false water
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in the lake of marsh green
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And I saw a fair maid
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standing by the lakeshore
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Her face, it was pale,
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In deep anguish she gazed
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where young Leonard plunged in
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Ah, there's deep and false water
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in the lake of lush green
Outro 1
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