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Thread #139968   Message #3214737
Posted By: Paul Davenport
29-Aug-11 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: Help to identify a folk song-poison berries
Subject: RE: Help to identify a folk song-poison berries
Who gave you poison berries, Henry my boy?
Father gave them to me sweet mother
So make my bed, I've got a pain in my head
And I want to lie down and die
So goodbye, dear mother, goodbye

Coll. 1994, Maltby, South Yorkshire UK
from 12 yr old Jodie Booth who learned it from her grandfather
Pub. South Riding Song Book - 1996

Any help?