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The night she'll hae but three j
 * Yestreen the Queen had four Maries,

There was Marie Seaton, and Marie Beaton, And Marie Carmichael, and me.

'O often have I dress'd my Queen

And put gowd upon her hair; But now I've gotten for my reward

The gallows to be my share.

'Often have I dress'd my Queen

And often made her bed; But now I've gotten for my reward

The gallows tree to tread.


 * I charge ye all, ye mariners.

When yc sail owre the faem, Let neither my father nor mother get wit

But that I'm coming hame.

( I charge ye all, ye mariners,

That sail upon the sea, That neither my father nor mother get wit

The dog's death I'm to die.

'For if my father and mother got wit,

And my bold brethren three, O mickle wad be the gude red blude

This day wad be spilt for me!


 * O little did my mother ken,

The day she cradled me, The lands I was to travel in

Or the death I was to die!'

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