The Butcher Boy

4/4 time - slow.

This is the sad Irish folk song
sung by Emily in "I Dies from Love."
Parts of the song were spread through-
out the episode, all sung solo by actress
Evin Crowley herself.

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In More Street where I did dwell

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A butcher boy I loved too well.

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He courted me, my life away,

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And now with me he will not stay.


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I wish, I wish, I wish in vain

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I wish I was a maid again!

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But a maid again I'll never be.

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Till cherries grow on an apple tree.


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I wish my baby it was born

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And smiling on its daddy's knee

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And me, poor girl, to be dead and gone

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With the long green grass growin' over me.
 

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He went upstairs and the door he broke.

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He found her hanging from a rope.

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He took his knife and he cut her down,

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And in her pocket, these words he found:


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"Oh make my grave large, wide and deep,

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Put a marble stone at my head and feet.

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And in the middle a turtle dove

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So the world may know I died for love."

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