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The Wife of Usher's Well

from Tradition II by Ranagri

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lyrics

There lived a wife at Usher's Well

And a wealthy wife was she

She had three stout and stalwart sons

And she sent them over the sea
They hadn’t been not a week from her
A week but barely one
When word came out to the carline wife

That her three sons were gone.

They had not been a week from her

A week but barely three

When word came to the carline wife

That her sons she'd never see.
I wish the wind may never cease

Nor fishes in the flood,
Till my three sons come home to me

In earthly flesh and blood

It fell about the Martinmas
When nights are long and mirk
The carline wife's three sons came home

And their hats were on the birch
It neither grew in syke nor ditch

Nor yet in any sheugh;
But at the gates of Paradise
That birk grew fair enough

“Blow up the fire, my maidens fair,

Bring water from the well
For all at my house shall feast this night

Since my three sons are well.”
Make them a bed, make them a bed

We’ll made it large and wide

She's taken all her mantle about,
And she sat down down by their side

Up crew the rooster, The red rooster

And up then crew the gray
The eldest to the youngest said

It’s time we were away.”
The cock he had not craw'd but once
And clapp'd his wings at her

The youngest to the eldest said
“Brother, we must away.

The cock doth craw, the day doth dawn

The channerin worm doth chide

If we be missed or out of plac

A sore pain we must bide
Fare ye well, mother dear

Fare well to barn and byre!
And fare ye well, you bonny lass

That kindles my mother's fire
Fare thee well
Fare thee well
Fare thee well

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from Tradition II, released September 2, 2022

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Anglo Irish 4 piece alt folk. Dónal Rogers. Eliza Marshall, Eleanor Dunsdon, Jordan Murray.. inc flutes, whistles, harp, piano, bodhrán, dulcimer,guitars & bouzouki.
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