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The Three Ravens.
47
ENGLISH, 16th CENTURY.
There are many varying forms of this old English ballad in praise of loyal love. The refrain "Derry, derry, down," is of remotest antiquity. It is held hy some etymologists to be a sentence of Druidio ori�gin. "There were three crows" comes from this song.