[00:01.39]"Get down, get down, little Henry Lee,
[00:06.07]and stay all night with me.
[00:12.70]The very best lodging
[00:15.03]I can afford will be fare better'n thee."
[00:22.33]"I can't get down, and I won't get down,
[00:27.44]and stay all night with thee,
[00:32.63]For the girl I have in that merry green land,
[00:37.55]I love far better'n thee."
[00:43.79]She leaned herself against a fence,
[00:48.74]just for a kiss or two;
[00:53.40]With a little pen-knife held in her hand,
[00:58.34]she plugged him through and through.
[01:03.47]"Come all you ladies in the town,
[01:08.44]a secret for me keep,
[01:13.31]With a diamond ring held on my hand
[01:18.31]I'll never will forsake."
[01:24.56]"Some take him by his lily-white hand,
[01:29.32]some take him by his feet.
[01:34.27]We'll throw him in this deep, deep well,
[01:39.07]more than one hundred feet.
[01:43.99]Lie there, lie there, loving Henry Lee,
[01:48.68]till the flesh drops from your bones.
[01:53.64]The girl you have in that merry green land
[01:58.59]still waits for your return."
[02:04.87]"Fly down, fly down, you little bird,
[02:09.67]and alight on my right knee.
[02:14.87]Your cage will be of purest gold,
[02:20.64]in deed of property."
[02:25.44]"I can't fly down, or I won't fly down,
[02:30.41]and alight on your right knee.
[02:35.13]A girl would murder her own true love
[02:39.79]would kill a little bird like me."
[02:46.52]"If I had my bend and bow,
[02:50.60]my arrow and my string,
[02:56.00]I'd pierce a dart so nigh your heart
[03:00.40]your wobble would be in vain."
[03:06.34]"If you had your bend and bow,
[03:10.34]your arrow and your string,
[03:15.22]I'd fly away to the merry green land
[03:19.88]and tell what I have seen."
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