Bonny Greenwoodside

She’s leaned her back against an oak
All alone and a’lonely O'
She’s pushed, and pushed till her back’s nearly broke
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She’s laid her head against a thorn
All alone and a’lonely O'
The two bonniest babes that ever were born
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She’s went back to her fathers castle hall
All alone and a’lonely O'
She-e was the smallest maid of them all
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She looks over her father’s castle wall
All alone and a’lonely O'
Two bonny babies a' playin' at a ball
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O, dear babies if you were mine
All alone and a’lonely O'
I’d give you bread, and I’d give you wine
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O Dear Mother, when we were thine
All alone and a’lonely O'
'Round our necks you pulled the twine
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Now we are in the heaven so High
All alone and a’lonely O'
And in hells fires you will die
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Only a mother that’s ever lost a child
All alone and a’lonely O'
Knows the grief the heart’s open wide
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