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THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND—F
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She stole the keys from her father's bed-head,O but her love it was easy won!
She opened the gates, she opened them wide,
She let him out o the prison strong.
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She went into her father's stable,O but her love it was easy won!
She stole a steed that was both stout and strong,
To carry him hame frae Northumberland.
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‘I'll be cook in your kitchen,Noo sure my love has been easy won!
I'll serve your own lady with hat an with hand,
For I daurna gae back to Northumberland.’
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‘I need nae cook in my kitchin,O but your love it was easy won!
Ye'll serve not my lady with hat or with hand,
For ye maun gae back to Northumberland.’
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When she gaed hame, how her father did ban!‘O but your love it was easy won!
A fair Scottish girl, not sixteen years old,
Was once the fair flower o Northumberland!’
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