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Thread #65817   Message #3749932
Posted By: Joe_F
10-Nov-15 - 06:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sweet William's Ghost (Hughie Jones)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sweet William's Ghost (Hughie Jones)
The version on Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl's _Blood and Roses_, Vol. 2, concludes with the following, which always makes me catch my breath:

Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, my love,
Farewell, dear girl, said he;
If ever the dead may pray for the living,
My love, I'll pray for thee.