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There was a fair maiden lived in the north |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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She fell in love with her father's clerk |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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He courted her a year and a day |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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Till her, the young man did betray |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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She leaned her back against the thorn |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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And there, two bonny boys, she's born |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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She's taken out her little knife |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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And she's robbed them of their life |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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There, she walked by her father's wall |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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She saw her two bonny boys playing ball |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Oh, bonny boys, if you were mine, |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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I'd dress you up in silk so fine |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Oh, mother dear, when we were dying, |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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You did not treat us then so fine |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Now, bonny boys, come tell to me |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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What sort of life I'll have after dying? |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Seven years of visions of blood |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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And seven years of hurt in the womb |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Seven years down in the mourning bell |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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And seven years in the flames of hell |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Welcome, welcome, visions of blood |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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And welcome, welcome, hurt in the womb |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Welcome down to the mourning bell |
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Oh, the rose and the linsey, oh |
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But, God, save me from the flames of hell |
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Down by the Greenwood side, oh |
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Down by the Greenwood side |