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Joan Baez
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There was a lady and a lady gay
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Of children she had three
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She sent them away to the North Countree
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To learn their grammaree
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They'd not been gone but a very short time
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Scarcely three weeks and a day
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When death, cruel death, came [Incomprehensible] along
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And stole those babes away
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"There is a King in Heaven", she cried
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"A King of third degree
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Send back, send back my three little babes
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This night send back to me"
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She made a bed in the uppermost room
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On it she put a white sheet
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And over the top a golden spread
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That they much better might sleep
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"Take it off, take it off", cried the older one
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"Take it off, take it off", cried he
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"For what's to become of this wide wicked world
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Since sin has first begun"
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She set a table of linen fine
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On it she placed bread and wine
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"Come eat, come drink my three little babes
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Come eat, come drink of mine"
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"We want none of your bread, mother
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Neither do we want your wine
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For yonder stands our Savior deer
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To Him we must resign"
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"Green grass is over our heads, mother
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Cold clay is over our feet
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And every tear you shed for us
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It wets our winding sheet"
Sad eyed lady of the lowlands - Joan Bae...
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