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Queen Jane lay in labor full nine days or more |
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'Til her women were so tired, they could no longer there |
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They could no longer there |
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"Good women, good women, good women as ye be |
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Will you open my right side and find my baby |
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And find my baby?" |
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"Oh no," cried the women, "That's a thing never can be |
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We will send for King Henry and hear what he may say |
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And hear what he may say" |
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King Henry was sent for, King Henry did come |
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Saying, "What do ail you, my lady? Your eyes, they look so dim |
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Your eyes, they look so dim" |
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"King Henry, King Henry, will you do one thing for me? |
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That's to open my right side and find my baby |
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And find my baby" |
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"Oh no," cried King Henry, "That's a thing I'll never do |
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If I lose the flower of England, I shall lose the branch too |
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I shall lose the branch too" |
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There was fiddling, aye, and dancing on the day the babe was born |
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But poor Queen Jane beloved lay cold as the stone |
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Lay cold as the stone |
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Adew adew, my heart is lost |
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Adew, my joy and my solace |
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With double sorrow, complain I must |
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Until I die, alas, alas |
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Until I die, alas, alas |
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(Repeat) |