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Thread #39647   Message #563112
Posted By: John P
02-Oct-01 - 12:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pretty Polly / lost verse
Subject: Lyr Add: PRETTY POLLY
My wife is looking for a verse(s) to Pretty Polly that she heard on the radio some time ago. The rest of the song was mostly as she sings it, as given below. The version she heard on the radio had an extra verse or two, about how Willie was haunted by the sound of the wild birds for the rest of his life. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Thanks,
John Peekstok

Pretty Polly

Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me
Before we get married, some pleasure to see.

She got up behind him and away they did go.
Over the hills and the valleys below.

Polly looked around at the wild countryside
And saw a new-dug grave and a spade lying by.

Willie, dear Willie, I'm scared of your ways
I'm afraid you will lead my poor body astray.

Polly, pretty Polly, you guessed it just about right
I dug on your grave the longest part of last night.

She threw her arms around him and trembled with fear
Oh how can you kill me when I love you so dear?

He stabbed her to the heart and her blood it did flow
And into the grave pretty Polly did go.

He threw a little dirt over her and turned to go home
Leaving no one behind but the wild birds to mourn.