Karan Casey - Lady Mary Anne Chords

[Verse]
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Lady Mary Anne looked over the castle wall
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There she saw twa bonny laddies playing at the ball
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The youngest of them, he was the fairest of all
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Her bonny boy, he's young and he's growing O

[Verse]
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Father, dearest father, you have done me a great wrong
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To go and get me married to a lad who is so young
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He being only sixteen years and I am twenty one
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My bonny boy, he's young and he's growing O

[Verse]
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Daughter, dearest daughter, I have done you no wrong
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To go and get you married to a lad who is so young
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He will be a match for you when I am dead and gone
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Your bonny boy, he's young and he's growing O

[Verse]
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Oh father, dearest father, then I'll tell you what we'll do
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We'll send my love to college for another year or two
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All around his college cap we'll bind the ribbons blue
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To let the ladies know that he's married O

[Instrumental]
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Well, young Charlie Cochrane was the sprout of an oak
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Blithe, aye and bonny and straight was his neck
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The sun, when it shone, it was all for his sake
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He will be the pride of the forest O

[Verse]
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Lady Mary Anne was the flower among the dew
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Blithe aye and bonny and straight was her shoe
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The longer she blossomed, well, the sweeter she grew
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The lily in the bud will be bonnier O

[Verse]
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Summer, it is gone when the leaves, they were green
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Happy were the days that both you and I have seen
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Far happier days, well, I trust will come again
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My bonny boy, he's young and he's growing O

[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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Oh well, at the age of sixteen years, he was a married man
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At the age of seventeen, the father of his son
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At the age of eighteen, o'er his grave the grass grew green
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Cruel death had put an end to his growing O

[Verse]
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I will weave my love a shroud of the ornamental brown
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Whilst I am a-weaving it, the tears, they will fall down
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For once I had a true love, but now he's lying low
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I'll nurse his bonny boy while he's growing O
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Growing O