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T:The Two Brothers
B: Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Dec 1957
S:Lucy Stewart, Fetterangus, Aberdeenshire and Donald Stewart of Huntley.
Z:Peter Kennedy
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w:There were two pret-ty boys they were go-ing to school,
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w: In the even-ing com-ing home_*
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w: Said Will-iam to his bro-ther John:
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w: "Oh can you throw a stone?_*
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w: Oh_  can you throw a  stone?"
W:There were two pretty boys they were going to school,
W:In the evening coming home
W:Said William to his brother John,
W:"Oh can you throw a stone?"
W:
W:"I can either throw a stone
W:Or little can I play at the ball
W:But if you come down to the merry green woods
W:I will try you a wrestle and fall."
W:
W:Then they went down to the merry green woods,
W:The biggest threw the littlest down,
W:Then John took out a little penknife
W:And stabbed William to the ground.
W:
W:"Oh brother dear; oh brother dear
W:What makes you so pale and wan?"
W:"Do you not see by the light of the moon
W:That my heart's blood's trickling down."
W:
W:He took off his lily-white shirt
W:And he tore from gore to gore
W:And wrapped it round his lily-white breast
W:But the blood came ten times more.
W:
W:Its "What will your dear father say
W:This night when you come home?"
W:"Tell him I'm away to a London school
W:And a good boy I'll return."
W:
W:(Donald's variant was:
W:Its "What will your dear father say
W:This night when you come home?"
W:"Tell him I'm away to a long, long school
W:And a good scholar I'll return.")
W:
W:And "What will you dear step-mother say
W:This night when you go home?"
W:"Tell her the last prayer she prayed for me
W:That I would never return."
W: