The Wife Of Ushers Well

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[Verse]
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There lived a wife in Usher's Well
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A wealthy wife was she
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She had three stout and stalwart sons
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And sent them o'er the sea

[Verse]
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They had not been from Usher's Well
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A week but barely one
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When word came to this carline wife
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That her three sons were gone

[Chorus]
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"I wish the wind... may never cease
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Nor flashes in the flood
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Till my three sons return to me
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In earthly flesh and blood
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Earthly flesh and blood"

[Verse]
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It fell about the Martinmas
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The nights were long and dark
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Three sons came home to Usher's Well
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Their hats were made of bark

[Verse]
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That neither grew in forest green
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Nor on any wooded rise
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But from the north side of the tree
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That grows in Paradise

[Chorus]
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"Blow up the fire..., my merry, merry maidens
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Bring water from the well
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For all my house shall feast this night
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Since my three sons are well
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My three sons are well"

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Then up and crowed the blood red cock
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And up and crowed the grey
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The oldest to the youngest said
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"It's time we were away"

[Verse]
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"For the cock does crow and the day doth show
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And the channering worm doth chide
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And we must go from Usher's Well
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To the gates of Paradise"

[Chorus]
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"I wish the wind... may never cease
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Nor flashes in the flood
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Till my three sons return to me
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In earthly flesh and blood
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Earthly flesh and blood"

[Outro]
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