Lady Maisry / Songs and Lyrics

Version 1

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T:Lady Maisry
T:(Bonny Susie Cleland / The Burning)
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w:She cal-led to her lit-tle page - boy Who 
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w:was her bro-ther's son. She
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w:told him as quick - as - he - could - go To -
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w:bring her Lord - safe home.
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W:She called to her little page boy
W:Who was her brother's son | 
W:She told him as quick as he could go
W:To bring her Lord safe home'
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W:2
W:Now the very first mile he would walk
W:And the second he would run
W:And when he came to a broken down bridge
W:He bent his breast and swum.
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W:3
W:And when he came to the new castell
W:The Lord was set at meat
W:If you were to know as much as I
W:How little would you eat. | 
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W:4
W:O is m y tower falling down
W:Ordoes my bower burn?
W:Or is my gay Lady put to bed
W:With a daughter or a son?
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W:5
W:O no your tower is not falling down
W:Nor does your bower burn.
W:But we are afraid ere you return
W:Your Lady will be dead and gone.
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W:6
W:Come saddle, saddle my milk white steed,
W:Come saddle my pony too
W:That I may neither eat nor drink
W:Til I come to the old castell.
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W:7
W:Now when he came to the old castell
W:He heard a big bell toll
W:Then he saw eight noble, noblemen
W:A bearing of a pall.
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W:8
W:Lay down, lay down that gentle, gentle corpse
W:As it lay fast asleep
W:That I may kiss her red ruby lips
W:Which I used to kiss so sweet.
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W:9
W:Six times he kissed her red ruby lips
W:Nine times he kissed her chin
W:Ten times he kissed her snowy snowy breast
W:Where love did enter in
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W:10
W:The Lady was buried on that Sunday
W:Before the prayers were done
W:And the Lord he died on the next Sunday
W:Before the prayers begun.

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