| If you will go down to Rosemary Lane
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| Oh, you’ll pick me out the finest girl there
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| And I will make her a true love of mine
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| Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| To be done without needle or needlework
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| Then she will be a true lover of mine
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| And tell her to wash it in yonder well
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| Where water’s not sprung and rain never fell
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| Then she will be a true lover of mine
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| And tell her to dry it on yonder green thorn
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| The bloom never grew since Adam was born
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| Then she will be a true lover of mine
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| And when she has finished all of her work
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| Oh, tell her I’ll call for my cambric shirt
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| Then she will be a true lover of mine
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| If you will go down to Rosemary Lane
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| Oh, you’ll pick me out the finest boy there
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| And I will make him a true love of mine
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| Tell him to get me an acre of land
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| Between the salt sea and the salt sea strand
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| Then he will be a true lover of mine
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| Oh, tell him to plough it with a ram’s horn
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| And sow it all over with one grain of corn
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| Then he will be a true lover of mine
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| Tell him to reap it with a cock’s feather
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| And bind it all over with strappings of leather
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| Then he will be a true lover of mine
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| Tell him to ride home on a snail
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| Where every rose grows merry and fine
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| And thrash it all over with an ox’s tail
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| Then he will be a true lover of mine
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| A lover of mine
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine)
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| (Every rose grows merry and fine) |