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Willow Tree (Irish)
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The night was dark, the hour late
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Cold blew the winter air
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And as four farmers homeward walked
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Down through the Lifford fair
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Both sad and sharp it struck their ear
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They thought they heard a cry
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Said neither man nor animal
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Although the winds blew high
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They climbed the wall and searched the tombs
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That thickly filled the ground
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And spreading on a new-made grave
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The sorrowful youth they found
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His wild moans filled the chilly air
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He looked pale and wild
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His loud cries would have pierced your heart
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For he wept like a child
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They roused him from the cold wet eart
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Inviting him away
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He said move me not from this said spot
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For here I mean to stay
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This is my true love's grassy bed
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And here all night I'll lie
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All by the side of my long-lost bride
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I will remain and die
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In early life we whip had joined
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In love both fond and true
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There's not a care that touched my heart
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But touched my feelings too
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The times were bad and I was poor
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It was then I went away
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To make a fortune in strange lands
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I crossed the roaring sea
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Scarce before I went away
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In wedlock's bonds we joined
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It was then I left my tender bride
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So lonely young and fond
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For three long years I stayed away
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I crossed the roaring sea
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I won my fortune in strange lands
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But there begins my grief
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I came back on a summer night
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Calm and fragrant was the air
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She sat before her father's door
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And had never looked so fair
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I stood before her suddenly
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And when I caught here eye
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She clasped her hands before her face
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And gave a piercing cry
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The sudden shock then reached her heart
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The story soon was told
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When I came home her father gave
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His hands to ancient gold
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But all the gold that e'er was shown
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Did fail to ease her mind
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And like a tender flower crushed
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Away she drooped and pined
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Markwood followed after this
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I need not stop to tell
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In that day monster I could hear
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The tolling funeral bell
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Now I have done all with this Earth
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And it has done with me
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My love lies dead in her clay bed
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Beneath yon willow tree
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The stopped but neither force nor word
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Could raise him from the ground
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All night he lay on the cold clay
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And next day he was found
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And when they touched him he was dead
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And where he lay he died
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They dug his grave and side-by-side
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They laid him with his bride
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