Butcher Boy

Album: various (1895)
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  • In More Street where I did dwell
    A butcher boy I loved right well
    He courted me my life away
    And now with me he will not stay

    I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
    I wish I was a maid again
    But a maid again I'll never be
    Till cherries grow on an apple tree

    I wish my baby it was born
    And smiling on its daddy's knee
    And me poor girl to be dead and gone
    With the long green grass growing over me

    He went upstairs and the door he broke
    He found her hanging from a rope
    He took his knife and he cut her down
    And in her pocket these words he found

    "Oh make my grave large, wide and deep
    Put a marble stone at my head and feet
    And in the middle a turtle dove
    So the world may know I died of love" Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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