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Red is the Rose
03:57
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Red is the rose in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that rose from the Boyne
And my love is fairer than any
Come over the sea my bonnie English lad
Come over the sea to your darlin'
I’ll choose the rose and you’ll make the vow
And you’ll swear to love me forever
And red is the rose in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that rose from the Boyne
And my love is fairer than any
We were down by Killarney’s green woods when we strayed
And the moon and the stars, they were shining
Then the moon shone it’s rays down on your pretty face
And you swore to love me forever
Well it ain’t for the parting of your dear sister Kate
It ain’t for the grief of your mother
It is all for the loss of my bonnie English lad
That my heart now is breaking forever
And red is the rose in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that rose from the Boyne
And my love is fairer than any
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Pretty Polly
05:14
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Polly pretty Polly won’t you come along with me
Polly pretty Polly won’t you come along with me
Before we get married, some pleasures to see
She climbed up behind him and away they did ride
She climbed up behind him and away they did ride
Over valleys so low and mountains so high
Willy, oh Willy I’m afraid of your ways
Willy, oh Willy I’m afraid of your ways
The way we’ve been riding will lead us astray
Polly, pretty Polly, your guess is about right
Polly, pretty Polly, your guess is about right
I dug on your grave the best part of last night
They rode up a little further and what did they spy
They rode up a little further and what did they spy
A newly dug grave with a spade lyin’ by
She got down on her knees and she begged for her life
She got down on her knees and she begged for her life
Sayin’ let me live a single girl if I can’t be your wife
He stabbed her through the heart and her life’s blood did flow
He stabbed her through the heart and her life’s blood did flow
And into the grave, her fair body did throw
The queen called for sailors to go out to sea
The queen called for sailors to go out to sea
Young William enlisted quite eagerly
’Twas early one morning before the break of day
’Twas early one morning and the captain did say
There’s a murderer onboard and the ship she won’t sway
Then up jumped one sailor, indeed sir, not I
Up jumped another, said, indeed sir, not I
Then up jumped young William to storm, curse. and cry
Then Willy turned yellow, then purple, then green
Then Willy turned yellow, then purple, then green
For before him the ghost of pretty Polly’d been seen
She ripped him, she stripped him, she tore him in three
She ripped him, she stripped him, she tore him in three
Sayin’ that’s for the death of my baby and me
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Cruel Mother
03:57
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There was a lady lived in York
All alone and loney
She fell in love with her father’s clerk
Down by the green wood sidey
She loved him up, she loved him down
All alone and loney
She loved him ‘till she hit the ground
Down by the green wood sidey
She leaned her back against a thorn
All alone and loney
And there she had to fine babes born
Down by the green wood sidey
She pulled out her yellow hair
All alone and loney
She tied those poor babes 'round with care
Down by the green wood sidey
She pulled out her reaping knife
All alone and loney
She stabbed those two babes through the hearts
Down by the green wood sidey
She lay them both under a stone
All alone and loney
And then she returned as a fair maid home
Down by the green wood sidey
One day she was sitting’ in her father’s hall
All alone and loney
She saw two babes come a plain at ball
Down by the green wood sidey
Oh babes, Oh babes, if you was mine
All alone and loney
I’d dress ye up in scarlet fine
Down by the green wood sidey
Oh mother, oh mother it’s we was yours
All alone and loney
And scarlet was our own hearts blood
Down by the green wood sidey
You wiped your knife upon your shoe
All alone and loney
The more you wiped, more red it grew
Down by the green wood sidey
You lay us both under a stone
All alone and loney
And now you sit as a fair maid home
Down by the green wood sidey
Oh babes oh babes it’s heaven for you
All alone and loney
Oh mother, oh mother it’s hell for you
Down by the green wood sidey-o
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Long Black Veil
03:22
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It was ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed ‘neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That the killer who ran looks a lot like me
She walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my grave when the cold winds wail
Nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
The judge said son, what’s your alibi
If you were somewhere’s else
Then you don’t have to die
I said not a word though it meant my life
For I’d been in the arms of my best friend’s wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my grave when the cold winds wail
Nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
The scaffolding’s high and eternity near
She stands in the crowd and she sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
In a long black veil she cries over my bones
She walks these hills in a long black veil
Visits my grave when the cold winds wail
Nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
Nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows but me
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The Blackest Crow
05:07
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The time draws near
My dearest dear
For you and I to part
What little you know
Of the pain and woe
In my poor aching heart
In my poor aching heart, my love
Believe me when I say
I wish that I could go with you
Or wish that you could stay
The blackest crow that ever few
Would surely turn to white
If ever I prove false to you
Bright day would turn to night
Bright day would turn to night, my love
The elements would mourn
If ever I prove false to you
The seas would rage and burn
I wish my heart was made of glass
Wherein it you’d behold
Upon a note
Your name it wrote
In letters made of gold
In letters made of gold, my love
Believe me when I say
You are the one
That I’ll adore
‘Till my own dying day
When you’re bound for
Some distant shore
Think of your absent friend
And when the wind
Blows high and clear
A line to me pray send
A line to me pray send, my love If it be just a word
From you to me
Across the sea
By bottle or by bird
The blackest crow that ever flew
Would surely turn to white
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A Different Thread North Carolina
“Warm, deep singer-songwriters who have drank from the well of 20th century tradition” - Folk Radio
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A Different Thread, is the collaboration between Robert Jackson from Lichfield, England, and Alicia Best from Durham, North Carolina, USA. Both traveling songwriters in their own right, they first met while busking in Galway, Ireland, back in 2016 and have been touring together ever since.
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