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There was a lady, she lived in Lurk,
Sing hey alone and alonie O
She fell in love with her father's clerk.
Down by yon greenwood sidie O
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She loved him seven years and a day,
Till her big belly did her betray.
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She leaned her back unto a tree,
And there began her sad misery.
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She set her foot unto a thorn,
And there she got her two babes born.
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She took out her wee pen-knife,
She twind them both of their sweet life.
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She took the sattins was on her head,
She rolled them in both when they were dead.
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She howkit a grave forenent the sun,
And there she buried her twa babes in.
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As she was walking thro her father's ha,
She spied twa boys playing at the ba.
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'O pretty boys, if ye were mine,
I would dress ye both in the silks so fine.'
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'O mother dear, when we were thine,
Thou neer dressed us in silks so fine.