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Once there was a shepherd lad |
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Kept sheep upon the hill |
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And he's laid his pipe and his crook aside |
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And there he's slept his fill |
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He woke up on a riverbank on a fine May morning |
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And there he spied a lady |
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Swimming in the clothes that she was born in |
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So he raised his head from his green bed |
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and he approached the maid |
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"Put on your clothes, my dear," |
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He says, "and do not be afraid |
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It's fitter for a lady fair to sew a silken seam |
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Than to rise on a fair May morning |
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and swim against the stream." |
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"Well if you'll not touch my mantle |
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and you'll leave my clothes alone, |
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Then I'll give you all the money |
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Sir that you can carry home." |
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"I'll not touch your mantle |
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and I'll leave your clothes alone |
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But I'll take you out of the clear water |
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My dear, to be my own" |
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And he's taken her out of the clear water |
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and he's rowed her in his arms |
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"Put on your clothes, my dear," |
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He says, "and hide your bounteous charms." |
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He's put her on a milk white steed |
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himself upon another |
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And it's all along the way they rode |
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like sister and like brother. |
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She rode up to her father's gate |
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and she's rapped upon the pin, |
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And ready stood a porter there |
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to let the fair maid in. |
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When the gates were opened |
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It's so nimbly she stepped in |
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She said, "Kind sir |
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You are a fool without and I'm a maid within |
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So fare thee well, my modest boy |
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I thank you for your care |
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But had you done as you desired |
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I'd never have left you there. |
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I will sew no silken seam on a fine May morning. |
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You can bide your time till your time runs out |
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So take this as fair warning. |
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I will sew no silken seam on a fine May morning. |
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You can bide your time till your time runs out |
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So take this as fair warning. |
