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Child Part I p	A
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False Sir John a wooing came	B
To a maid of beauty fair	C
May Colven was this lady's name	B
Her father's only heir	C
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He wood her butt he wood her ben	D
He wood her in the ha	E
Until he got this lady's consent	F
To mount and ride awa	G
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He went down to her father's bower	H
Where all the steeds did stand	I
And he's taken one of the best steeds	J
That was in her father's land	I
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He's got on and she's got on	K
As fast as they could flee	A
Until they came to a lonesome part	L
A rock by the side of the sea	A
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Loup off the steed says false Sir John	K
Your bridal bed you see	A
For I have drowned seven young ladies	M
The eighth one you shall be	A
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Cast off cast off my May Colven	K
All and your silken gown	K
For it's oer good and oer costly	A
To rot in the salt sea foam	N
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Cast off cast off my May Colven	K
All and your embroiderd shoen	K
For oer good and oer costly	A
To rot in the salt sea foam	N
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O turn you about O false Sir John	K
And look to the leaf of the tree	A
For it never became a gentleman	K
A naked woman to see	A
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He turned himself straight round about	O
To look to the leaf of the tree	A
So swift as May Colven was	P
To throw him in the sea	A
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O help O help my May Colven	K
O help or else I'll drown	K
I'll take you home to your father's bower	H
And set you down safe and sound	Q
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No help no help O false Sir John	K
No help nor pity thee	A
Tho' seven kings' daughters you have drownd	Q
But the eighth shall not be me	A
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So she went on her father's steed	Q
As swift as she could flee	A
And she came home to her father's bower	H
Before it was break of day	Q
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Up then and spoke the pretty parrot	Q
May Colven where have you been	K
What has become of false Sir John	K
That woo'd you so late the streen	K
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He woo'd you butt he woo'd you ben	K
He woo'd you in the ha	E
Until he got your own consent	Q
For to mount and gang awa	G
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O hold your tongue my pretty parrot	Q
Lay not the blame upon me	A
Your cup shall be of the flowered gold	Q
Your cage of the root of the tree	A
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Up then spake the king himself	R
In the bed chamber where he lay	Q
What ails the pretty parrot	Q
That prattles so long or day	Q
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There came a cat to my cage door	S
It almost a worried me	A
And I was calling on May Colven	K
To take the cat from me	A

Andrew Lang

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