THE GREEN GRASS
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The other spake: "I've wife and weans,
Yet I lie in this waesome bed—
Why am I dead?
Yet I lie in this waesome bed—
Why am I dead?
"O, I hae wife and weans at hame,
And they clamour loud for bread—
Why am I dead?"
And they clamour loud for bread—
Why am I dead?"
Quoth the first: "I have a sweet, sweet heart,
And this night we should hae wed—
Why am I dead?
And this night we should hae wed—
Why am I dead?
"And I can see another man
Will mate her in my stead,
Now I am dead."
Will mate her in my stead,
Now I am dead."
They turned them back to back about
In the grave where they were laid:—
"Why are we dead?"
In the grave where they were laid:—
"Why are we dead?"
"I mind o' a field, a foughten field,
Where the bluid ran routh and red—
Now I am dead."
Where the bluid ran routh and red—
Now I am dead."
