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She went upstairs to make her bed and not a word to her |
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Mother said her mother went upstairs too saying oh |
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Daughter my daughter what troubles you |
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Oh mother oh mother i can not tell that butcher that |
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Butcher that boy I love so well he courted he courted my |
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Life away and now at home at home he will not stay |
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Ther is a place a place in london town wher that |
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Butcher that boy he goes and sits down He takes that |
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Strange that strange girl on his knee and tells her and |
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Tells her what he won't tell me |
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Her father her father came home from work saying my |
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Daughter my daughter she looks so hurt he went upstairs |
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Upstairs to give her hope and found her and found her |
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Hanging from a rope |
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He took a knife a knife and cut her down and in her |
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Bosom her bosom a note he found go dig a grave |
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Both wide and deep and place a marble slab at my head and feet |
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And over my coffin my coffin place a snow white dove to |
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Warn the world the world that I died for love |