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From Suzanne's Songbook
The Butcher Boy

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My parents gave me learning, good learning they gave to me
For they sent me to a butcher's shop a butcher boy to be
 
It's there I met sweet Mary Ann with the dark and the rovin' eye
And I promised I would marry her in the month of sweet July
 
He went down to her mother's house 'tween the hours of eight and nine
And he asked her for to walk with him down by the foaming brine
 
Down by the foaming brine we'll go, down by the foaming brine
Now that won't be a pleasant walk, down by the foaming brine
 
They walked it east and they walked it west and they walked it all alone
Till he took a knife from out his breast and he stabbed her to the ground
 
She fell upon one bended knee and for mercy she did cry
Oron Willie dear, don't murder me, I'm not prepared to die
 
He took her by the lily-white hands and he dragged her to the brim
And with a mighty downward push he threw her body in
 
He went back to his mother's house 'tween the hours of twelve and one
And little did his mother think what her only son had done
 
He asked her for a handkerchief to tie around his head
And he asked her for a candlelight to show him off to bed
 
No sleep, no rest did the young man get, no rest he could not find
For he thought he saw the gates of hell approaching his bedside
 
For the murder it was soon found out and the gallows was his doom
For the murdering of sweet Mary Ann who lies where the roses bloom
 
As sung by Enoch Kent