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T:The Myrtle Tree
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
B:Palmer, Roy, Bushes and Briars, LLanerch, 1999
Z:Vaughan Williams
S:Ellen Powell, Westhorpe, Near Weobley, Hertfordshire in 1909
M:3/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:Dm
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w:First I loved Tho-*mas but_ now I_ love John _ *
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w:Them I loved Ed-*win he's a cle_ ver_ young man
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w:With_ his white cot-ton* stock-*ings and his high an-* kled_ shoes_
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w:He_ wears a_ vel-vet jack-*et like a flash_ lad_ he goes.
W:First I loved Thomas, but now I love John,
W:Then I loved Edwin, he's a clever young man.
W:With his white cotton stockings and his high ankled shoes,
W:He wears a velvet jacket, like a flash lad he goes.
W:
W:For fiddling and dancing is all my delight,
W:And keeping flash company has ruined me quite.
W:Runined me quite, and a great many more;
W:If I'd not kept bad company I'd never been so poor.
W:
W:Take this yellow handkerchief in rememberance of me,
W:And I hope you will wear it in your high company;
W:For in the middle of the ocean there shall grow a myrtle tree
W:Before ever I prove false to the girl that loves me.
W:
W:Here's adieu to you judges and juries, you are too severe;
W:You have banished my true love from me I declare.
W:May the rocks run water and the rivers run dry
W:If ever I prove false to the girl that loves I.
W:
W:If the wars should come again, love, what would old England say?
W:They would wish for the transports they have sent far away.
W:They would wish for the transports to return back again
W:To fight for old England their rights to maintain.