Kate Rusby – Playing Of Ball (Guitar)

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It happened one evening at the playing of ball

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When first I met Willie, he was proper, he was tall

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He was neat, fair, and handsome and straight in each limb

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There's a heart in my bosom and it's aching for him

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Will you go along with me all down the road

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To see father's dwelling and the place of our abode?

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He knew by her look and her languishing eye

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He was the young man she valued most so high

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There's a place in my garden, "Young Willie, " said she

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"Where earls, dukes, and lords, they wait upon me

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And when they are sleeping, their long, silent rest

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I'll go with you, Willie, you're the boy I love best"

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Her father was listening, in ambush he lay

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He's heard the words these lovers did say

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And with his sharp rapier, he's pierced her love through

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And the innocent blood of her darling he drew

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Oh, I will go off to some far country

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Where I'll know no one and no one knows me

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It's there where wonder in my own silent rest

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It's you, lovely Willie, you're the boy I love best

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It happened one evening at the playing of ball

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When first I met Willie, he was proper, he was tall

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He was neat, fair, and handsome and straight in each limb

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There's a heart in my bosom and it's aching for him

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There's a heart in my bosom and it's aching for him