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I	A
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Wailing wailing wailing the wind over land and sea	B
And Willy's voice in the wind 'O mother come out to me '	-
Why should he call me to night when he knows that I cannot go	C
For the downs are as bright as day and the full moon stares at the snow	C
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II	A
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We should be seen my dear they would spy us out of the town	D
The loud black nights for us and the storm rushing over the down	D
When I cannot see my own hand but am led by the creak of the chain	E
And grovel and grope for my son till I find myself drenched with the rain	E
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III	A
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Anything fallen again nay what was there left to fall	F
I have taken them home I have number'd the bones I have hidden them all	F
What am I saying and what are you do you come as a spy	A
Falls what falls who knows As the tree falls so must it lie	A
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IV	G
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Who let her in how long has she been you what have you heard	H
Why did you sit so quiet you never have spoken a word	H
O to pray with me yes a lady none of their spies	I
But the night has crept into my heart and begun to darken my eyes	I
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V	G
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Ah you that have lived so soft what should you know of the night	J
The blast and the burning shame and the bitter frost and the fright	J
I have done it while you were asleep you were only made for the day	K
I have gather'd my baby together and now you may go your way	K
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VI	G
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Nay for it's kind of you Madam to sit by an old dying wife	G
But say nothing hard of my boy I have only an hour of life	G
I kiss'd my boy in the prison before he went out to die	G
'They dared me to do it ' he said and he never has told me a lie	G
I whipt him for robbing an orchard once when he was but a child	L
'The farmer dared me to do it ' he said he was always so wild	L
And idle and couldn't be idle my Willy he never could rest	M
The King should have made him a soldier he would have been one of his best	M
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VII	G
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But he lived with a lot of wild mates and they never would let him be good	N
They swore that he dare not rob the mail and he swore that he would	N
And he took no life but he took one purse and when all was done	O
He flung it among his fellows I'll none of it said my son	O
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VIII	G
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I came into court to the Judge and the lawyers I told them my tale	P
God's own truth but they kill'd him they kill'd him for robbing the mail	P
They hang'd him in chains for a show we had always borne a good name	Q
To be hang'd for a thief and then put away isn't that enough shame	Q
Dust to dust low down let us hide but they set him so high	G
That all the ships of the world could stare at him passing by	G
God 'ill pardon the hell black raven and horrible fowls of the air	R
But not the black heart of the lawyer who kill'd him and hang'd him there	R
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IX	I
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And the jailer forced me away I had bid him my last goodbye	G
They had fasten'd the door of his cell 'O mother ' I heard him cry	G
I couldn't get back tho' I tried he had something further to say	I
And now I never shall know it The jailer forced me away	I
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X	I
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Then since I couldn't but hear that cry of my boy that was dead	S
They seized me and shut me up they fasten'd me down on my bed	S
'Mother O mother ' he call'd in the dark to me year after year	T
They beat me for that they beat me you know that I couldn't but hear	U
And then at the last they found I had grown so stupid and still	V
They let me abroad again but the creatures had worked their will	V
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XI	I
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Flesh of my flesh was gone but bone of my bone was left	W
I stole them all from the lawyers and you will you call it a theft	W
My baby the bones that had suck'd me the bones that had laughed and had cried	X
Theirs O no they are mine not theirs they had moved in my side	X
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XII	I
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Do you think I was scared by the bones I kiss'd 'em I buried 'em all	F
I can't dig deep I am old in the night by the churchyard wall	F
My Willy 'ill rise up whole when the trumpet of judgment 'ill sound	Y
But I charge you never to say that I laid him in holy ground	Y
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XIII	I
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They would scratch him up they would hang him again on the cursed tree	I
Sin O yes we are sinners I know let all that be	I
And read me a Bible verse of the Lord's good will toward men	Z
'Full of compassion and mercy the Lord' let me hear it again	Z
'Full of compassion and mercy long suffering ' Yes O yes	I
For the lawyer is born but to murder the Saviour lives but to bless	I
He'll never put on the black cap except for the worst of the worst	A2
And the first may be last I have heard it in church and the last may be first	A2
Suffering O long suffering yes as the Lord must know	C
Year after year in the mist and the wind and the shower and the snow	C
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XIV	G
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Heard have you what they have told you he never repented his sin	B2
How do they know it are they his mother are you of his kin	B2
Heard have you ever heard when the storm on the downs began	C2
The wind that 'ill wail like a child and the sea that 'ill moan like a man	C2
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XV	G
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Election Election and Reprobation it's all very well	D2
But I go to night to my boy and I shall not find him in Hell	D2
For I cared so much for my boy that the Lord has look'd into my care	R
And He means me I'm sure to be happy with Willy I know not where	R
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XVI	G
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And if he be lost but to save my soul that is all your desire	E2
Do you think that I care for my soul if my boy be gone to the fire	E2
I have been with God in the dark go go you may leave me alone	F2
You never have borne a child you are just as hard as a stone	F2
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XVII	G
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Madam I beg your pardon I think that you mean to be kind	G2
But I cannot hear what you say for my Willy's voice in the wind	G2
The snow and the sky so bright he used but to call in the dark	H2
And he calls to me now from the church and not from the gibbet for hark	H2
Nay you can hear it yourself it is coming shaking the walls	I
Willy the moon's in a cloud Good night I am going He calls	I

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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