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Steeleye Span
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As I was walking all alane
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I heard twa corbies makin' mane;
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And tane ontae the tither did say,
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"Where shall we gang and dine the day
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Where shall we gang and dine the day?"
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"In behind yon aul fail dyke
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I wot there lies a new slain knight;
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And naebody kens that he lies there-o
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But his hawk and his hound and his lady fair-o,
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His hawk and his hound and his lady fair."
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His hawk is tae the hunting gane,
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His hound to fetch the wildfowl hame;
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His lady has ta'en anither mate-o
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So we may make our dinner sweet-o,
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We may make our dinner sweet"
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"Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane
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And I'll pike out his bonny blue een;
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With many a lock of his golden hair-o
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We'll theek our nest when it grows bare-o,
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Theek our nest when it grows bare."
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"Many a one for him makes mane
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But nane shall ken where he is gane;
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O'er his white bones when they are bare-o
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The wind shall blow for evermare-o,
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The wind shall blow for evermare."
Steeleye Span at Shrewsbury Folk Festiva...
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