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 Before I lie into your bed,

either at stock or wa‘.

What is greener than the grass?

what is higher than the trees?

And what is worse than woman swoman's [sic] voice?

what's deeper than the seas!

A sparrow's horn a priest unborn,

this night to join us twa,

Before I lie into your bed

either at stock or wa'.

Death is greener than the grass;

skies higher than the trees:

The devil sdevil's [sic] worse than woman's voice,

hell shell's [sic] deeper than the seas:

A sparrow ssparrow's [sic] horn you may well get,

there sthere's [sic] one on every pa,

And two upon the gab of it,

and you shall have them a.

The priest he's standing at the gate,

just ready to come in,

No man can say that he was born,

no man without a sin.

A hole cut in his mother's side,

he from the same did fa';

So we shall lie in ae bed,

and thous lie next the wa'.

O little did this lady think,

that morning when she rose,