The Wife Of Ushers Well chords by Alasdair Roberts

Intro:
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Verse:
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There was a lady and a lady gay
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Of children she had three___
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She sent them away to the North Country
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For to learn their grammarie

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They had not been gone so very long
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Scarce six months and a day____
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'Till death, cold death, came hasting along
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And stole these three babes away

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It was all about the Christmas time
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The night being cold and clear___
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She looked and saw those three babes
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A-coming   home to her

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She made a table all long and wide
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On it she put bread and wine___
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"Come eat, come drink, my three little babes
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Come eat, come drink my wine"

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"Oh, we want none, none of your bread
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Neither do we want your wine___
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For yonder comes our saviour dear
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And with him we must resign

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"Green grass grows over our rosy heads
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Cold clay lies beneath our feet___
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And every tear that you shed for us
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Well, it wets our winding sheet"