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FAIR ANNIE—G
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She served them up, she served them down,She served them up with wine,
But still she drank the clear spring water,
To keep her color fine.
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‘I must get up, she must sit down,She must sit in my place,
Or else be torn by wild horses
And thrown over the gates.’
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‘You wont get up, she wont sit down,She wont sit in your place,
Nor yet be torn by wild horses,
Nor thrown over the gates.’
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She called up her seven sons,By one, by two, by three:
‘I wish you were all seven gray-hounds,
This night to worry me.’
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‘What ails you, fair Ellen? what ails you, fair?Or why do you sigh and moan?’
‘The hoops are off my wine hogsheads,
And my wine is overflown.’
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