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When we were silly sisters, seven sisters so mild,
Five went to bride bed and five dead with child.
Then it's up spoke young Mary and it's single she'd bide,
For if ever she was in man's bed, the same death she'd die.

“Oh it's take no vows, Mary, for fear they broke be,
For there's a knight in Wallington asking good will of thee.”
“Oh if there's a knight, mother, asking good will of me,
Then it's in three quarters of a year you may bury me.”

Well, she had not been in Wallington three quarters and a day
Till she was big with baby as any lady.
“Oh where's the boy in this town that will run swift and true?”
Then it's up spoke a little page-boy, “Your bidding I'll do!”

“Give respects to my mother and tell her what's done;
Ask her how she likes the news; she's lost all but one.”
When her mother she heard this in anger cried she
And she's kicked out at the table with her foot and her knee.

Then she's called for her serving-maid and also her groom:
“Bring me my riding cloak and saddle the brown.”
But when they came to Wallington, into Wallington Hall
There were four and twenty ladies there that let the tears fall.

Oh her daughter had a scope into her cheek and her chin,
For to keep her sweet life until her mother come in.
Now she's taken out a razor that was both sharp and fine
And from out of her left side took the heir of Wallington.

“Oh, there is a race in Wallington, that I rue full sore
Though the cradle be well prepared, the bride-bed is bare.”

When we were silly sisters, seven sisters so mild,
Five went to bride bed and five dead with child.
Then it's up spoke young Mary and it's single she'd bide,
For if ever she was in man's bed, the same death she'd die.

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from The Ox and the Ax, released March 30, 2018

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Cath and Phil Tyler Newcastle, UK

Cath & Phil Tyler play Anglo-American folk music using guitar, banjo, voice and fiddle. Coming together musically through a shared love of traditional narrative song, full voiced sacred harp singing and sparse mountain banjo, they have performed on stages as diverse as the Royal Opera House in London and a dank tower in the old city walls of Newcastle. ... more

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