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Bonnie Mae a-shepherding has gone
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To call the sheep to the fold
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And aye, as she sang, her bonny voice, it rang
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Right over the tops of the downs, downs
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Over the tops of the downs
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There came a troop of gentlemen
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As they were riding by
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And one of them has lighted down
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And he's asked of her the way, the way
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He's asked of her the way
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"Ride on, ride on, you rank riders
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Your steeds are stout and strong
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For it's out of the fold I will not go
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For fear you'll do me wrong, wrong
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Fear you'll do me wrong"
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Now he's taken her by the middle jip
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And by the green gown sleeve
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And there he's had his will of her
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And he's asked of her no leave, no leave
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He's asked of her no leave
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"Oh I've ridden east and I've ridden west
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And I've ridden o'er the downs
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But the bonniest lass that ever I saw
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Is calling her sheep to the fold"
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She has taken the milk pail on her head
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And she's gone lingering home
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And all her father said to her
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Was, "Daughter, you've done me wrong, wrong
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Daughter, you've done me wrong"
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Now twenty weeks were gone and past
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Twenty weeks and three
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And the lassie began to fret and to frown
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And to long for his twinkling eye, bright eye
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Long for his twinkling eye
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Now it fell on a day, and a bonny summer's day
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For she walked out alone
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That selfsame troop of gentlemen
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Came riding o'er the downs, downs
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Riding o'er the downs
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"Who got the babe with thee, Bonnie Mae?
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Who got the babe in thy arms?"
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For shame she blushed and aye, she said
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"Oh I've a good man of my own"
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"You lie, you lie, you bonny, bonny Mae
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So loud I hear you lie
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Remember the misty, murky night
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I lay in the fold with thee, with thee
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I lay in the fold with thee
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Now he's lighted off his berry-brown steed
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He's set the fair Mae on
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"Go call out your fold, good father, yourself
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She'll ne'er call them again, again
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She'll ne'er call them again"
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For he's the Lord of Achentrioch
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With fifty plough and three
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And he's taken away the bonniest lass
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In all the south country, country
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In all the south country
Eminem - Mockingbird [Official Music Vid...
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