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“True love, true love, let us get married.
Our love is so great, how can you slight me?
If it weren’t for my .... (Stanleys: “I’ll work for you both late and early”)
If you my only little wife would be.”

“True love, true love, let us consider,
We’re both too young for to marry, my dear.
When we get married we’re bound together.
Let us stay single three more years.”

He saw her dancing with another fellow.
A jealous thought it came on his mind.
“I’ll kill that girl, she’s my own true lover
Before another boy shall beat my time.”

He went to the barroom and he started to drinking,
And a jealous thought it was still on his mind.
“I’ll kill that girl, she’s my own true lover
I will give her poison in a glass of wine.”

He went to [the] window and he called unto her.
She said, “Willie, my dear, what do you want with me?”
“Come and drink with the man that really loves you,
It’s better than any other man,” said he.

She went to the barroom and she started to drinking,
And her red rosy cheeks they never before,
But she did not know what that she was a-drinking,
It would lay her in her grave below.

She lay her head over on Willie’s shoulder
Said, “Willie, my dear, please take me home,
For the last glass of wine that I have drinken,
It has made it to my head, babe, and done me a wrong.”

He laid his head over on her shoulder,
And he told her his love, and he read her his mind.
“True love, true love, ...... (Stanleys: “Molly dear, I’m sorry to tell you”)
We did both drink poison in a glass of wine.”

Willie laid his head over on her shoulder,
And he placed his arms all across her breast,
“Here is two lovers bound together,
Oh lord, oh lord, take us home to rest.”

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from Survey of Traditional Music, Vol. 1: From British Tradition, released August 7, 2023
Recorded by Mark Wilson, Cambridge, MA, 11/18/73). Previously unissued.

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