The Corries – The Queens Four Marys (Guitar)

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Last night there were four Marys

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Tonight there'll be but three  

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There was Mary Seaton and Mary Beaton

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And Mary Carmichael and me.

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Oh, often have I dressed my Queen

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And put on her braw silk gown

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But all the thanks I've got tonight

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Is to be hanged in Edinburgh Town.

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Full often have I dressed my Queen

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Put gold upon her hair

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But I have got for my reward

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The gallows to be my share.

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Oh, little did my mother know 

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The day she cradled me

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The land I was to travel in

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The death I was to dee.

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Oh, happy, happy is the maid 

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That's born of beauty free

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Oh, it was my rosy, dimpled cheeks

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That's been the devil to me.

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They'll tie a kerchief around my eyes

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That I may not see to dee

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And they'll never tell my father or mother

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But that I'm across the sea.