There
was a fair maiden lived in the north
Oh the rose and the linsey -o
She fell in love with her father’s clerk
Down by the Greenwood side-o
He courted her for a year and a day
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
Till her the young man did betray
Down by the Greenwood side-o
She leaned her back against the thorn
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
And there two bonny boys she’s born
Down by the Greenwood side-o
She’s taken out her little knife
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
And she’s rubbed them of their life
Down by the Grennwood side-o
There she walked by her father’s wall
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
She saw her two bonny boys playing ball
Down by the Greenwood side
Oh bonny boys, if you were mine
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
I’ll dress you up in silk so fine
Dow by the Greenwood side-o
Oh mother dear, when we were dying
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
You did not treat us then so fine
Down by the Greewood side-o
Now bonny boys, come tell to me
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
What sort of life I’ll have after dying
Down by the Greenwood side-o
Seven years of visions of blood
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
And seven years of hurt in the womb
Down by the Greenwood side-o
Seven years down in the mourning bell
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
And serve years in the flames of hell
Down by the Greenwood side-o
Welcome, welcome visions of blood
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
And welcome, welcome hurt in the womb
Down by the Greenwood side-o
Welcome down to the mourning bell
Oh the rose and the linsey-o
But God save me from the flames of hell
Down by the Greenwood side-o
Down by the Greenwood side
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