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Mary Hamilton [Stereo][Multimedia Track]
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Joan Baez
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Word is to the kitchen gone, and word is to the Hall
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And word is up to Madam the Queen, and that's the worst of all
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That Mary Hamilton has borne a babe
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To the highest Stuart of all
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Oh rise, arise Mary Hamilton
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Arise and tell to me
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What thou hast done with thy wee babe
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I saw and heard weep by thee
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I put him in a tiny boat
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And cast him out to sea
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That he might sink or he might swim
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But he'd never come back to me
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Oh rise arise Mary Hamilton
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Arise and come with me
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There is a wedding in Glasgow town
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This night we'll go and see
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She put not on her robes of black
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Nor her robes of brown
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But she put on her robes of white
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To ride into Glasgow town
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And as she rode into Glasgow town
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The city for to see
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The bailiff's wife and the provost's wife
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Cried Alack and alas for thee
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You need not weep for me she cried
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You need not week for me
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For had I not slain my own wee babe
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This death I would not dee
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Oh little did my mother think
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When first she cradled me
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The lands I was to travel in
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And the death I was to dee
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Last night I washed the Queen's feet
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And put the gold in her hair
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And the only reward I find for this
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The gallows to be my share
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Cast off cast off my gown she cried
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But let my petticoat be
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And tie a napkin round my face
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The gallows I would not see
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Then by them come the king himself
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Looked up with a pitiful eye
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Come down come down Mary Hamillton
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Tonight you will dine with me
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Oh hold your tongue my sovereign liege
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And let your folly be
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For if you'd a mind to save my life
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You'd never have shamed me here
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Last night there were four marys
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Tonight there'll be but three
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It was Mary Beaton and Mary Seton
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And Mary Carmichael and me.
Joan Baez - Ballad of Mary Hamilton
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