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green grows the laurel, soft falls the dew, |
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sorry was i love when parting from you, |
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but at our next meeting i hope you'll prove true, |
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and we'll join the laurel and the violet so blue. |
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i once had a sweetheart but now i have none, |
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he's gone and he's left me to weep and to mourn, |
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he's gone and he's left me for other to see, |
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i'll soon find another far better than he. |
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he passes my window both early and late, |
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and the looks that he gives me would make my heart break, |
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the looks that he gives me a thousand would kill, |
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though he hates and detests me i love that lad still. |
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i wrote him a letter in red rosy lines, |
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he wrote back an answer all twisted and twined, |
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saying keep your love letters and i'll keep mine, |
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you write to your love and i'll write to mine. |
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now often i wonder why maidens love men, |
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and often i wonder why young men love then, |
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but from my own knoeledge i will have you know, |
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the men are deceivers wherever they go. |
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green grows the laurel, soft falls the dew, |
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sorry was i love when parting from you, |
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but at our next meeting i hope you'll prove true, |
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and we'll join the green laurel and the violet so blue |
