Down By The Greenwood Side

There was a fair maiden lived in the north

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

She fell in love with her father's clerk

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

He courted her for a year and a day

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

Till her the young man did betray

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

She leaned her back against the thorn

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

And there two bonny boys she's born

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

She's taken out her little knife

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

And she's rubbed them of their life

Down by the Grennwood side - oh

There she walked by her father's wall

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

She saw her two bonny boys playing ball

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Oh bonny boys if you were mine

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

I'll dress you up in silk so fine

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Oh mother dear when we were dying

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

You did not treat us then so fine

Down by the Greewood side - oh

Now bonny boys come tell to me

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

What sort of life I'll have after dying

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Seven years of visions of blood

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

And seven years of hurt in the womb

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Seven years down in the mourning bell

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

And seven years in the flames of hell

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Welcome welcome visions of blood

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

And welcome welcome hurt in the womb

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Wecome down to the mourning bell

Oh the rose and the linsey - oh

But God save me from the flames of hell

Down by the Greenwood side - oh

Down by the Greenwood side