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Pentangle
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There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
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(Lay the bent to the bonnie broom)
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Two daughters were the babes she bore
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(Fa la la la la la la la la la)
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alternating with each of the lines below>
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As one grew bright as is the sun,
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So coal black grew the elder one.
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A knight came riding to the lady's door,
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He'd traveled far to be their wooer.
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He courted one with gloves and rings,
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But he loved the other above all things.
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Oh sister will you go with me
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To watch the ships sail on the sea?
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She took her sister by the hand
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And led her down to the North Sea strand.
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And as they stood on the windy shore
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The dark girl threw her sister o'er.
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Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
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Crying, "Sister, reach to me your hand!
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"Oh Sister, Sister, let me live,
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And all that's mine I'll surely give."
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"(It's) your own true love that I'll have and more,
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But thou shalt never come ashore."
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And there she floated like a swan,
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The salt sea bore her body on.
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Two minstrels walked along the strand
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And saw the maiden float to land.
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They made a harp of her breastbone,
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Whose sound would melt a heart of stone.
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They took three locks of her yellow hair,
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And with them strung the harp so rare.
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They went into her father's hall
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To play the harp before them all,
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But when they laid it on a stone
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The harp began to play alone.
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The first string sang a doleful sound:
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"The bride her younger sister drowned."
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The second string as that they tried,
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In terror sits the black-haired bride.
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The third string sang beneath their bow,
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"And surely now her tears will flow."
Pentangle - BBC in Concert, 4th January...
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