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Thread #26561 Message #320424
Posted By: mg
16-Oct-00 - 10:19 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: The Butcher Boy - I Dies For Love
Subject: ADD: The Butcher Boy ^^^
here are the words I know as remembered from Ryans' Fancy
In Dublin town where I did dwell Lived a butcher boy I loved right well He courted me my life away And still with me he would not stay
I wish I wish I wish in vain I wish I was a maid again A made again I'll never be Till apples grow on an ivy tree
She went upstairs to go to bed And calling to her mother said Give me a chair till I sit down And a pen and ink till I write down
At every word she shed a tear At every line cried Willie dear Oh what a foolish girl was I To be led astray by the butcher boy
He went upstairs the door he broke He found her hanging from a rope And with his penknife he cut her down And in her pocket these words he found
Oh dig my grave dark wide and deep Place a marble stone at my head and feet And in the middle a turtle dove So the world may know That I died for love.^^^