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My tender parents brought me up, provided for me well,
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'twas in the city of Lanson Town, they placed me in a mill.
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It was there I spied a pretty fair miss, on whom I cast my eye,
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I asked her if she'd marry me, and she believed a lie.
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Three weeks ago last Saturday night, of course it was the day,
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the devil put it in my mind to take her life away.
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I went into her sister’s house at eight o'clock one night,
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but little did the creature think on her I had my spite.
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I asked her, if she'd take a walk with me a little ways,
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that she and I might have a talk about our wedding day.
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We walked along until we came to my little desert place,
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I grabbed a stick off of the fence and struck her in the face.
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I run my fingers through her coal black hair to cover up my sin,
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I drug her to the river side, and there I plunged her in.
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I started back unto my mill, I met my servant John,
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he asked me why I was so pale and it so very warm.
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Come all young men and warning take, unto your lovers be true,
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and never let the devil get the upper hand of you
