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O come all ye maids who live at a distance |
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Many's a mile from off your sway |
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Come and assist me this very moment |
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For to pass away some time |
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Singing sweetly and completely |
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Songs of pleasure and of love |
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For me heart is with him altogether |
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Though i live not where i love |
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When i sleep i dream about you |
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When i wake i take no rest |
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Every moment thinking on you |
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My heart o'er fixed in your breast |
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But although far distance |
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May be of assistance |
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If from my mind your love remove |
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For me heart is with him altogether |
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Though i live not where i love |
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All the world shall be of one religion |
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All living things shall cease to die |
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If ever i should prove false to my jewel |
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Or any way his love deny |
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Oh the world shall change |
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And be most strange |
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If from my mind your love remove |
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For me heart is with him altogether |
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Though i live not where i love |
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So farewell lad and farewell lassies |
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Now i think i've made my choice |
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I will away to yonder mountain |
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Where i think i hear his voice |
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And if he hollows i will follow |
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Around the world though it is so wide |
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For young thomas he did promise |
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I should be his lawful bride |
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Repeat first verse. |