Anaïs Mitchell – Willie Of Winsbury (Guitar)

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The king has been a prisoner

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And a prisoner long in Spain

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And Willie O the Winsbury

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Has lain long with his daughter Jane.

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What ails you, what ails you, my daughter Jane

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Why you look so pale and wan?

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Have you had any ill sickness

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Or yet been sleeping with a man?

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I have not had any ill sickness

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Nor yet been sleeping with a man

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It is for you my father dear

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For biding so long in Spain.

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Cast off, cast off, your robe and gown

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Stand naked on the stone

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That I may know you by your shape

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If you be a maiden or none.

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And shes cast off the robe and gown

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Stood naked on the stone

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her apron was tight and her waist was round

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Her face was pale and wan.

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And was it with a lord or a gentleman

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Or a man of wealth and fame

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Or was it with one of my serving men

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While I was a prisoner in Spain?

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No it wasnt with a lord or a gentleman

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Or a man of wealth and fame

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It was with Willie o Winsbury

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I could bide no longer alone.

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And the king has called his serving men

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By one by two and by three

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Saying, Where is this Willie o Winsbury?

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For hanged he shall be. 

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And when they came before the king

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By one, by two and by three

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Willie should have been the first of them

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But the last of them was he.

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And Willie O the Winsbury

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All dressed out in red silk

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His hair hung like the strands of gold

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His breast was white as milk.

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No wonder, no wonder, the king he said,

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That my daughters love you did win

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If I were a woman as I am a man

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In my own bed you would have been.

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And will you marry my daughter Jane

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By the faith of your right hand?

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And Ill make you the lord of my serving men

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Ill make you the heir of my land.

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Oh yes, Ill marry your daughter Jane

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By the faith of my right hand.

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But Ill not be the lord of any men,

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Ill not be the heir to your land.

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And he raised her up on a milk-white steed

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Himself on a dapple grey

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He has made her the lady of as much land

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As she can ride in a long summers day.