There was a lady,
lived in the North
Oh, the rose and the linsie- o
She fell in love with her father
's clerk
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He courted her for a year and a day
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Till her the young man did betray
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She leaned her back up
against a thorn
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Then she had two pretty
babes born
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She took her penknife, keen and sharp
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She has stucked it to their hearts
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As she was walking her father's hall
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She saw two babes a- playing ball
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She said, "Oh, babes,
it's you can tell"
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"What kind of death I
have to die"
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sidie- o
"Seven years a fish in the flood"
Oh, the rose and the linsie- o
"Seven years a bird in
the wood"
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"Seven years a tongue
in the warning bell"
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"Seven years in the
flames of hell"
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"Oh, welcome, welcome,
fish in the flood"
Oh, the rose and the linsie- o
"Welcome, welcome,
bird in the wood"
Down by the greenwood
sidie- o
"Welcome, wel come,
tongue in the warning bell"
Oh, the rose and the linsie- o
"God, keep me from the
flames in hell"
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