English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians
122 Songs and Ballads, and 323 Tunes With Lyrics & sheet Music - online book
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No. 50
The Three Butchers A |
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2 They rode up on the mountain, The mountain being high. Dicky said to Johnson :
I heard a woman cry.
3 They looked off to the right And then to the left; Dicky seen a naked woman All chained down by herself.
4 Dicky, being kind
To all the female kind,
He wropt a great coat round her
And took her on behind.
5 They rode on a little piece farther To a certain point of the road.
She slapped three fingers over her eyes And gave three screams and a cry.
6 Out stepped seven robbers With weapons in their hands, Took Dicky by the bridle,
Said: Young man, your life is mine,
7 Johnson said to Dicky : Let's take wings and fly. Dicky said to Johnson: I'll die before I fly.
8 And from that morning Till the sun set that night, Dicky killed six of the robbers And made the seventh take flight.
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