Clancy Brothers
The Butcher Boy
In London city where I did dwellA butcher boy, I loved right wellHe courted me, my life awayBut now with me, he will not stayI wish, I wish, I wish in vainI wish I was a maid againA maid again I ne'er will be'Til cherries grow on an apple treeI wish my baby it was bornAnd smiling on its daddy's kneeAnd me poor girl to be dead and goneWith the long green grass growing over meShe went upstairs to go to bedAnd calling to her mother said"Give me a chair 'til I sit downAnd a pen and ink 'til I write down"At every word she dropped a tearAnd at every line cried "Willie dearOh, what a foolish girl was ITo be led astray by a butcher boy"He went upstairs and the door he brokeLetras de cancionesHe found her hanging from a ropeHe took his knife and he cut her downAnd in her pocket, these words he foundOh, make my grave large, wide and deepPut a marble stone at my head and feetAnd in the middle, a turtle doveThat the world may know, that I died for love
From Letras Mania