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From Child Ballad 2
| C | G | C | |
| Go | tell her to make me a | cambric | shirt, |
| F | G7 | |
| Parsley, sage, rose | mary, and | thyme, |
| C | G | |
| With | out a stitch of a | seamster's work, |
| C | G | C | |
| And | then she will be a true | lover of | mine. |
Go tell her to wash it in yonders well,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
Where never was water, and rain never fell,
And then she will be a true lover of mine.
Go tell her to hang it on yonders thorn, etc.
Where leaf never budded since Adam was born, etc.
Go tell him to clear me an acre of land,
Between the sea and the fine sea sand.
Go tell him to plow it all with a thorn,
And plant it all over with one grain of corn.
Go tell him to reap it with an old stirrup-leather,
And bind it all up with a pea-fowl's feather.
Go tell him to thrash it against the wall,
And not one grain on the floor shall fall.
Go tell him to shock it in yonder sea,
And return it back all dry to me.
Go tell him to take it to the mill,
And every grain its bushel shall fill.
Go tell him to wrap it all up in a sack,
And send it to market all on a rat's back.
Go tell this young man when he gets his work done,
To come to my house and his shirt'll be done.
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