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Sovay Sovay all on a day |
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She dressed herself in man's array |
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With a brace of pistols all by her side |
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To meet her true love, to meet her true love, she ride |
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As she was riding over the plain |
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She met her true love and bid him on his handshe said stop`` |
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Stand and deliver, come sir,'' she said`` |
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And If an you do not, and if an you do not, |
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I'll shoot you dead'' |
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He delivered up his golden store |
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And still she craved for one thing more`` |
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That diamond ring, that diamond ring that |
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I see you wear |
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Oh hand it over, oh hand it over, and your life |
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I'll spare''`` |
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That diamond ring |
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I wouldn't part |
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For it's a token from me sweetheart |
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You shoot and be damned you rogue" said he" |
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And you'll be hanged and you'll be hanged for murdering me'' |
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Next morning in the garden green |
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Young Sophie and her love were seen |
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He spied his watch hanging by her clothes |
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Which made him blush lads, which made him blush lads like any rose`` |
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Why do you blush you silly thing |
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I thought to have that diamond ring |
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Twas I who robbed you all on the plain |
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So here's your gold, so here's your gold and your watch again''`` |
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I only did it for to know |
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If you were be a man or no |
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If you had given me that ring she said |
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I'd have pulled the trigger |
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I'd pulled the trigger and shot you dead'' |
