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Lady Margaret, lady Margaret
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was sowing at the sea
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she's all dressed in black
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and a thought came in her head to roam in the woods
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to pull flowers to flower her hat, my boys
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to pull flowers to flower her hat
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so she hoisted up her petticoats a bit above the knee
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and so nimbly she ran over the ground
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and when she came to the merrygreen woods
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she pulled those branches down, my boys
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she pulled those branches down
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Suddenly she spied a fine young man
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he's standing by a tree
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he says how dare you pull those branches down?
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without the leave of me, my dear
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without the leave of me
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well she says this little wood it is my very own
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my father gave it to me
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i can pull these branches down without the leave of thee, young man
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oh without the leave of thee
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and he took a by the milk-white hand
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and by the grass-green sleeve
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he pulled her down at the foot of the bush
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he never once asked her leave, my boys
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oh he never once asked her leave
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and when it was down she twisted about
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to ask her true love's name
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but she nothing saw
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she nothing heard
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and all the woods grew dim
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and all the woods grew dim
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There's four and twenty ladies all in the land
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and they're all playing a chess
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except it was the lady Margaret
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and she's green as any glass, my boys
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oh she's green as any glass
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and these four-and-twenty ladies all in the land
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grow as red as any rose
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except the lady Margaret she's pale and wan, my boys
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oh pale and wan she goes
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up then spoke the little serving girl
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she lifted her hand and smiled
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she said i think my lady's loved too long
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and now she goes with child, my dears
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oh and now she goes with child
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up then spoke the second serving girl
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oh ever and alas says she
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that i think i know a herb in the merry green wood
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that'll twine thy baby from thee
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it'll rip off thy babe from thee
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So lady Margaret she got herself a comb
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she made haste to comb her hair
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and then she's away to the merry green woods
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as fast as she can tear, my boys
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as fast as she can tear
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and she hadn't pulled in the merry green woods
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a herb that barely won
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when by her stands the young Tamlin
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he says Margaret leave it alone
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oh Margaret leave it alone
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why do you pull that bitter little herb
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that herb that grows so grey
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for to destroy that fine young baby that we got in our play, my dear
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oh that we got in our play
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well come tell me now young Tamlin says she
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if an earthly man you be
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i tell you no lies, says young Tamlin
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i was christened as good as thee
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i was christened as good as thee
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but as i rode a-hunting on a bitter bitter night
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it was from my horse i fell
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and the queen of elvin she caught me
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into yonder green hill to dwell
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oh into yonder green hill to dwell
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but tonight is halloween lady
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the elvin caught will ride
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and if you would your true love win
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by the millbridge you must hide, my dears
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by the millbridge you must hide
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and first will run the black horse
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then will the brown
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and then will run the white
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you hold him fast, you fear him not
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for he's the father of your child, my love
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he's the father of your child
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they'll turn me on in your arms lady into many a beasts so wild
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but you hold them fast, you fear no ill
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it's the father of your child, my love
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it's the father of your child
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So lady Margaret, she gets herself a comb
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she made haste to comb her hair
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then she's away to the old millbrdige
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as fast as she could tear, my boys
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as fast as she could tear
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and about the dead hour of the night she heard the bridles ring
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oh my boys, she had her heart more than any earthly thing it did
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more than any earthly thing
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and first run the black horse
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then the brown
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and then raced by the white
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well she held it fast, she feared it not
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for it's the father of her child
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it's the father of her child
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the thunderoll across the sky
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the stars blazed bright as day
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the queen of elvin gave a thrilling cry
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Tamlin's away brave boys
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brave Tamlin's away
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the very first thing they turned him into
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is a lion that runs so wild
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but she held him fast, she feared him not
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he's the father of her child, my boys
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he's the father of her child
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and the very next thing they turned him into
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it was a loathsome snake
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he says hold me fast, fear me not
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for I'm one of god's own make, my love
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oh I'm one of god's own make
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and again they changed him all in her arms
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to a red-hot bar of iron
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but she held it fast, she feared it not
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it did to her no harm
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it did to her no harm
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and the very last thing they changed him into
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was like any naked man
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she flung her mantle over him
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she cried my love I've won I've won
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she cried my love I've won
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But the queen of elvin she called for a bush
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she's red as any blood
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i should have taken out your eyes, Tamlin
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and put in two eyes of wood
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and put in two eyes of wood
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