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Version A
One cold winter's morning me and my love did part.
Great lamentations and wounded was my heart,
To think I am to leave you just for to go away,
To some far off country expecting for to stay.
When I lay down at night all for to take my rest,
Trouble and sorrow still rolls across my breast.
No heart can ever feel, no tongue can ever tell,
The trouble and sorrow that upon me has fell.
Woke up in the morning and looked towards the skies,
And then towards the place where my true love she does lie.
O if I had the wings of some little turtle dove,
I'd leave these hills of sorrow and fly to my true love.
For the first time I saw her I gained her by my charm,
The second time I saw her I rolled her in my arms.
O she is the only girl in this world so wide,
She is the only girl can ever be my bride.
Version B
All on one winter's morning when me and my love did part.
It was grief and lamentation and wounded was my heart.
Since I'm supposed to leave you, to leave you my dear,
But never you forsake of me since I've rover in here.
All in September, the four and twentieth day,
It was a Tuesday in the morning I was supposed to ride away.
Me and my youngest sister together we did ride,
It wasn't like sweet Will Murphy a-riding by me side.
I rode on to Black Waters, from there unto the falls,
And people tried to persuade me I surely had no soul,
A-leaving of my true love and being so far away,
A-going to some foreign country and there I expect to stay.
I laid down at night expecting to take my rest,
The trouble and sorrow that rolled across my breast;
The trouble and sorrow has travelled on me fast,
That's more than I can bear or any tongue can tell.
I got up next morning, I looked towards the sky,
I parted toward the Ease where my true love does lie;
And if I had a pinion and the motion of a dove,
I'd fly on to those Zion, from there unto my love.
The first time I saw my love, I courted her by charm,
The second time I saw her I rolled her in my arms.
Since we have met together this world it is so wide,
But ne'er other fair girl shall ever be my bride.
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