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Version 1

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T:Early One Morning
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w:Ear-ly one morn--ing, just as the sun was ris--ing, I
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w:heard a maid sing_ in the val--ley be-low.
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w:Oh! don't de-ceive_ me, oh! ne-ver leave_ me,
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w:How_ could you use__ a poor_ maid-en so?
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W:1
W:Early one morning, just as the sun was rising,
W:I heard a maid sing in the valley below.
W:Oh! don't deceive me, oh! never leave me,
W:How could you use a poor maiden so?
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W:2.
W:Remember the vows that you made to me truly
W:Remember how tenderly you nestled close to me
W:Gay is the garland, fresh are the roses
W:I've culled from the garden to bind over thee.
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W:3
W:Here I now wander alone as I wonder
W:Why did you leave me to sigh and complain
W:I ask of the roses, why should I be forsaken,
W:Why must I here in sorrow remain?
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W:4
W:Through yonder grove, by the spring that is running
W:There you and I have so merrily played,
W:Kissing and courting and gently sporting
W:Oh, my innocent heart you've betrayed
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W:5
W:How could you slight so a pretty girl who loves you
W:A pretty girl who loves you so dearly and warm?
W:Though love's folly is surely but a fancy,
W:Still it should prove to me sweeter than your scorn.
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W:6
W:Soon you will meet with another pretty maiden
W:Some pretty maiden, you'll court her for a while;
W:Thus ever ranging, turning and changing
W:Always seeking for a girl that is new.
W:.
W:6.
W:Thus sang the maiden, her sorrows bewailing
W:Thus sang the poor maid in the valley below
W:"Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me,
W:How could you use, a poor maiden so?"

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