Henry Lee

Henry Lee - Dick Justice/Preston Young

"Get down get down little Henry Lee

And stay all night with me

The very best lodging

I can afford will be fare better'n thee "

"I can't get down and I won't get down

And stay all night with thee

For the girl I have in that merry green land

I love far better'n thee "

She leaned herself against a fence

Just for a kiss or two;

With a little pen-knife held in her hand

She plugged him through and through

"Come all you ladies in the town

A secret for me keep

With a diamond ring held on my hand

I'll never will forsake "

"Some take him by his lily-white hand

Some take him by his feet

We'll throw him in this deep deep well

More than one hundred feet

Lie there lie there loving Henry Lee

Till the flesh drops from your bones

The girl you have in that merry green land

Still waits for your return "

"Fly down fly down you little bird

And alight on my right knee

Your cage will be of purest gold

In deed of property "

"I can't fly down or I won't fly down

And alight on your right knee

A girl would murder her own true love

Would kill a little bird like me "

"If I had my bend and bow

My arrow and my string

I'd pierce a dart so nigh your heart your

Wobble would be in vain "

"If you had your bend and bow

Your arrow and your string

I'd fly away to the merry green land

And tell what I have seen "