The Ballad of George Collins
Sam Lee
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George Collins walked out one May morning When May was all in bloom, And who should he see but a fair pretty maid A-washing a white marble stone She whooped, she hollered, she called so loud She waved her lily-white hand Come hither to me, George Collins, cried she For your life it won't last you long He put his benbow down by the bank side Across the river sprang he He clipped his hands 'round her middle so small And he kissed her red ruby lips Then he rode home to his father's own house And loudly knocked at the ring Arise! Arise! Dear father, he cried, Arise and please let me in Arise! Arise! Dear mother, he cried, Arise and maketh my bed, Arise! Arise! Dear sister, he cried, Get a napkin to tie 'round my head For if I should die tonight As I suppose I shall Please bury me 'neath that white marble stone That lays in fair Eleander's hall Fair Eleander sat all in her hall A-weaving her silk so fine Who should she see but the finest corpse That ever her eyes shone on Oh, fair Eleander called unto her head maid Whose corpse is this oh so fine? She made her reply, George Collins's corpse, An old true lover of thine Oh, put him down my little brave boys And open his coffin so wide That I may kiss his red ruby lips Ten thousand times they've kissed mine This news been carried to fair London town And wrote on London Gate, Six pretty maids died all in one night 'Twas all for George Collins's sake
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