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Matty Groves
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Joan Baez
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A holiday, a holiday, and the first one of the year
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Lord darlen's wife came into the church,
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The gospel for to hear.
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And when the meeting it was done, she cast her eyes about
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And there she saw little Matty Groves, walking in the crowd
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"Come home with me, little Matty Groves, come home with me tonight
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Come home with me, little Matty Groves, and sleep with me till light"
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"Oh, I can't come home, I won't come home and sleep with you tonight
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By the rings on your fingers I can tell you are my master's wife"
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"But if I am Lord Arlen 's wife, Lord Arlen's not at home
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He is out in the far cornfields bringing the yearlings home"
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And a servant who was standing by and hearing what was said
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He swore Lord Arlen he would know before the sun would set
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And in his hurry to carry the news, he bent his breast and ran
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And when he came to the broad millstream, he took off his shoes and he swam
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Little Matty Groves, he lay down and took a little sleep
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When he awoke, Lord Arlen was standing at his feet
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Saying "How do you like my feather bed and how do you like my sheets
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How do you like my lady who lies in your arms asleep? "
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"Oh, well I like your feather bed and well I like your sheets
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But better I like your lady gay who lies in my arms asleep"
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"Well, get up, get up," Lord Arlen cried, "get up as quick as you can
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It'll never be said in fair England that I slew a naked man"
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"Oh, I can't get up, I won't get up, I can't get up for my life
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For you have two long beaten swords and I not a pocket knife"
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"Well it's true I have two beaten swords and they cost me deep in the purse
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But you will have the better of them and I will have the worse
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And you will strike the very first blow and strike it like a man
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I will strike the very next blow and I'll kill you if I can"
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So Matty struck the very first blow and he hurt Lord Arlen sore
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Lord Arlen struck the very next blow and Matty struck no more
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And then Lord Arlen took his wife and he sat her on his knee
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Saying "Who do you like the best of us, Matty Groves or me?"
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And then up spoke his own dear wife, never heard to speak so free
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"I'd rather a kiss from dead Matty's lips than you or your finery"
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Lord Arlen he jumped up and loudly he did bawl
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He struck his wife right through the heart and pinned her against the wall
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"A grave, a grave," Lord Arlen cried, "to put these lovers in
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But bury my lady at the top for she was of noble kin"
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