[ti:Willie O'Winsbury]
[ar:Meg Baird]
[al:Dear Companion]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Willie O'Winsbury - Meg Baird
[00:26.45]"Daughter  oh  daughter " said the king 
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[00:32.88]"Why're you so pale and wan 
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[00:38.98]I fear you have some sore sickness 
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[00:46.29]Or else you have laid with a man "
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[00:52.10]"You're welcome  you're welcome  my father dear 
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[00:59.04]You are welcome home to me 
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[01:05.04]For I have sick unto my heart
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[01:12.10]Since you've been so long on the sea "
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[01:18.16]"Cast off  cast off your berry-brown gown;
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[01:24.85]Stand naked upon the stone 
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[01:31.10]That I might know you by your shape
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[01:38.10]Whether you be a maiden or no "
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[01:44.12]So she's cast off her berry-brown gown;
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[01:51.05]She's stood naked upon the stone 
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[01:57.24]Her apron was low and her middle was round 
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[02:04.30]Her face was pale and wan 
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[02:10.24]"Oh  was it with a lord or a duke or a knight 
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[02:17.05]Or a man of birth and fame 
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[02:23.12]Or was it with one of my serving men
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[02:30.34]That's lately come out of Spain "
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[02:36.32]"No  it wasn't with a lord nor a duke nor a knight 
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[02:43.03]Nor a man of birth and fame 
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[02:49.18]But it was with Willie O'Winsbury;
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[02:56.24]I could bide no longer alone "
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[03:02.49]The king  he has sent for his merry men all
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[03:09.31]By thirty and by three 
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[03:15.18]Saying  "Fetch me this Willie O'Winsbury 
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[03:22.32]For hanged he shall be "
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[03:28.51]But when he was brought before the king 
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[03:35.51]He was clad all in red silk 
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[03:41.63]His hair was like the strands of gold 
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[03:48.84]His skin was white as milk 
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[03:54.77]"It is no wonder " said the king 
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[04:01.59]"How my daughter's love you did win 
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[04:07.46]For if I was a woman as I am a man 
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[04:14.90]My bedfellow you would have been 
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[04:20.96]"Will you marry my daughter Janet
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[04:27.58]By the truth of your right hand 
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[04:33.96]And if you'll marry my daughter Janet 
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[04:40.65]I will make you the lord of my lands "
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[04:46.77]"Yes  I will marry your daughter Janet
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[04:53.77]By the truth of my right hand 
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[04:59.65]But I'll not have your gold and I'll not have your gear 
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[05:07.09]And I'll not be the lord of your land 
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[05:12.90]"For I have houses and I have land 
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[05:19.90]I have men at my command 
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[05:26.00]And were it not for your daughter fair 
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[05:33.00]I would not be your servant man "
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[05:39.30]He sat her upon a milk white steed
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[05:46.12]And himself on a dapple gray;
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[05:52.24]He has made her the lady of as much land
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[05:59.12]As she can ride in a long summer's day