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Verse 1
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There did a squire live in this town,
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And a squire of a high renown.
He had a daughter,
a beauty bright,
And the name he called her
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was his heart's delight.
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All dukes and princes to
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court her came,
But none of them could her favour gain,
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Till there did the young man of low degree,
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And above them all she fancied him.
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When her father came of this to know
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That she loved this young man so and so
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One hundred miles he sent her away
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To de tain her of her wedding day
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One night as she was for her bed bound,
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And taking off her lovely gowns,
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She heard a voice of a deadly sound,
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Saying, Loosen those bonds,
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by which we're bound.
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Her father's hearse
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she right well know,
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And her mother's mantel she knew also.
She dressed herself from top to toe,
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With her lover waiting on her to go.
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She rode behind her own true love,
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They rode far faster than any wind,
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Till after an hour or a little more,
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He cried, my darling, my heady sore.
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A Holland handkerchief
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she then took out,
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And with it I held his hand about.
She kissed his lips, and his words did say,
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My love, you're colder
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than the berry clover.
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And when she came to her father's gate
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A light, a light, love, this young man said
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A light, a light, love, and go to bed
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And your father's horse I'll
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see rubbed and fed
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But when she came to her father's hall,
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Who's there,
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who's there, her father called,
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Tis thy dear father you sent for me,
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By such a messenger naming he.
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Our father knowing this
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man nine months dead,
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He tore the grey hair down
off his head.
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He wrung his hand and his heart was sore,
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And this young man's darling
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cried more and more.
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Twas early in the morning
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at the dawn of day,
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They went to the grave
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where this young man lay,
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And al though this young man
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is nine months dead,
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There's a hollentine kerchief
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tied round his head.
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