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the norfolk broads - young girl lyrics

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[verse 1]
when i was a young girl, i used to seek pleasure
when i was a young girl, i used to drink ale
now it’s out of the alehouse, into the jailhouse
out of the barroom and into my grave

[verse 2]
come mother, come father, and sit you down by me
sit you down by me and pity my case
for me poor head is aching, my sad heart is breaking
i’m in low spirits and bound to my grave

[verse 3]
now mother, come mother, to wash and to dress me
send for my sister to curl my black hair
and ask my dear brother to play the pipe lowly
and play the dead march as they carry me there

[verse 4]
go send for the preacher to come and pray o’er me
send for the doctor to heal up my wounds
for me bones they are aching, my sad heart is breaking
my body’s sal’vated and h+ll is my doom

[verse 5]
call six fair young maidens to handle my coffin
six fair young women to bear up my pall
and each of them carrying a bunch of white lilies
to put on my coffin as i pass along
[verse 6]
one morning, one morning as i was a+walking
as i was a+walking one morning in may
i spied a young woman all wrapped in white linen
all wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay

- the norfolk broads lyrics

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