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EARLY ONE MORNING (DT Version 1)
(English, Traditional)

Early one morning,
Just as the sun was rising,
I heard a maid sing,
In the valley below.

Chorus:

Oh, don't deceive me,
Oh, never leave me,
How could you use
A poor maiden so?

Remember the vows,
That you made to your Mary,
Remember the bower,
Where you vowed to be true,
chorus:

Thus sang the poor maiden,
Her sorrows bewailing,
Thus sang the poor maid,
In the valley below.

chorus: (slowly)

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@love @courtship
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EARLY ONE MORNING (3)

Early one morning,
Just as the sun was rising
I heard a maiden sing
In the valley below

cho: Oh, don't deceive me!
Oh, never leave me!
How could you use a poor maiden so?

I went for to investigate
And Jumped rigth o'er the farmer's gate
A-running, for I could not wait
Twas then, I spotted Daisy
Chorus:

Then I heard a rumbling,
A snorting and a thundering
Closer now came not a cow
But Aristotle the bull!
Chorus:

Oh, dearie dearie me!
I look'd into his fiery eye
And then he trampled over me
Old Aristotle the bull!
Chorus:

I lay there trampled in the dung
A-feeling like I'd just been wrung
Through a mangle tight and strong
And I was all a-tangle
Chorus:

Again, I heard it soft and clear
A-falling on my battered ear
That bloody maiden singing
In the valley below
Chorus:

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Traditional Ballad Index Entry:

Early One Morning

DESCRIPTION: "Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing in the valley below, Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me; How could you use a poor maiden so?" She laments the young made who made promises and then betrayed her for a new girl
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1866 (Hullah, "The Song Book")
KEYWORDS: love courting abandonment
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Early One Morning" (1 text)
DT, EARLY1AM*
Roud #12682
File: FSWB185

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