Ballads and Songs of Indiana - online book
A collection of 100 traditional folk songs with commentaries, historical info, lyrics & sheet music
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Brewster: Ballads and Songs of Indiana |
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LOTE HAS BROUGHT ME TO DESPAIR |
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length I heard this dole-ful sound#
5. "Go dig my grave both wide and deep;
Put a marble stone at my head and feet, And on my breast put a turtle-dove
That the world may know I died for love/'
6. When Mary's truelove this news came to be told,
That her fair body was dead and cold, "I'm glad," said he, "she has done so well; I long to hear the tolling bell.
7. "When Mary in Abraham's bosom shall sleep,1
So softly, softly she will sleep; When Mary in Abraham's bosom shall sleep, My poor soul in hell it will weep." |
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1 The *le*v in the first line of this *tanra sfacmM probably fct fc**p. |
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