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T:My Love Lies Cold Beneath My Feet
S:Charlotte Higgins
B:MacColl and Seeger, Traveller's Songs from England and Scotland, Routledge And Kegan Paul, 1977
Z:Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:We was a-sit-ting by the fire of a cold_ win-ter's night,
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w:We was tell-ing pur-ty tales that we dreamed the oth-er night;
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w:If my love will give me com-fort then I will give him joys
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w:O strange thoughts that come knock-ing at my door.
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w:Good morn-ing to you my fair pur-ty dam_ sel, How come you here so ear-ly My
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w:love's lay-ing so cold be-neath my feet. For the(etc)
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w:That was-n't what you prom-ised me you nev-er knew no oth-er.  My love lay so
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w:cold be-neath my feet; You pro-mised that you'd mar-ry me and nev-er O no oth-er
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w:But don't my love lay so cold be-low my feet
W:We was a-sitting by the fire of a cold winter's night,      
W:We was telling purty tales that we dreamed the other night;
W:If my love will give me comfort then I will give him joys
W:O strange thoughts that come knock-ng at my door.
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W:Good moring to you my fair pur-ty damsel, How come you here so early?
W:My love's lay-ing so cold be-neath my feet;
W:For the night is coming very dull, the morning's coming very bright,
W:Strange faces I'm going to meet the day.
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W:That wasn't what you promised me you never knew no other. 
W:My love lay so  cold beneath my feet;
W:You promised that you'd marry me and neer O no oth-er                                                                
W:But don't my love lay so cold below my feet