Butcher Boy

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In London city where I did dwell
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A butcher boy, I loved right well
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He courted me, my life away
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But now with me, he will not stay

[Chorus]
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I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
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I wish I was a maid again
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A maid again I ne'er will be
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'Till cherries grow on an ivy tree

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

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She went upstairs to go to bed
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And calling to her mother said
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"Give me a chair 'till I sit down
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And a pen and ink 'till I write 
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down"

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At every word she dropped a tear
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And at every line cried "Willie dear
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Oh, what a foolish girl was I
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To be led astray by a butcher boy"

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

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Oh, make my grave large, wide and 
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deep
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Put a marble stone at my head and 
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feet
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And in the middle, a turtle dove
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That the world may know, that I 
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died for love.