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Thread #6377   Message #36891
Posted By: Susan-Marie
03-Sep-98 - 07:35 AM
Thread Name: Question on a TWO SISTERS song
Subject: Lyr Add: TWO SISTERS (sung by Clannad)
I'm looking for a "two sisters" song that doesn't appear to be in the database. I learned it from a Clannad CD, but I can't make out some of the nonsense chorus stuff (I guess that's why it's called nonsense, right?) or the ultimate fate of the eldest sister. Here's what I do have, if someone cam fill in the {???} I'd appreciate it.

There were two sisters side by side
Sing I dum, sing I day
There were two sisters side by side
The {??boys are bound for me??}
There were two sisters side by side
The eldest one for Johnny cried
I'll be true unto my love, if he'll be true to me

Oh, Johnny got the youngest a gay gold ring [etc.]
He never got the eldest anything [etc.]

Oh, Johnny got the youngest a beaver hat [etc.]
The eldest didn't think much of that [etc.]

One day as they were walking by the foamy brim [etc.]
The eldest pushed the youngest in [etc.]

Oh, sister, oh, sister, give me thy hand [etc.]
And you can have Johnny and all his land [etc.]

Oh sister, I'll not give you my hand [etc.]
And I'll have Johnny and all his land [etc.]

Away she sank and away she swum [etc.]
Until she reached the miller's dam [etc.]

The miller, he took her gay gold ring [etc.]
And then he pushed her in again [etc.]

The miller he was hanged on the mountain head [etc.]
The eldest sister {???????} [etc.]