English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians

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	No. 97
	The Sheffield Apprentice
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	2 And when I got to London a fair lady met me there And offered me in wages to live with her one year; And offered me in wages fine house and fine land, If I'd give consent and marry her, she'd be at my command. 3 I said: Dear Miss, excuse me, I cannot wed you both, I'm promised to pretty Polly and bounded with an oath. Then Miss she grew angry and from me fled away, A-swearing by all her vengeance she'd be my overthrow. 4 I stepped out one evening to take the pleasant air, I find Miss in the garden, a-viewing the lilies fair. The gold rings on her fingers, as she come past by me, She dropped them in my pocket, and for it I must die. 5 They put me on a east bound train one cold December day, And every station I rode through I heard the people say: Yonder goes a young man, in iron chains he's bound, For some crime or other he's bound for Charlestown.
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