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Come all you garners gay
That are just now in your prime
I wish I was in that bonny girl's arms
Where I've been many a time:
Where I've been many a time,
Where I've been many a time
I wish I was in that bonny girl's arms
Where I've been many a time.
Green willows they will twist
Green willows they will twine
I wish I was in that bonny girl's arms
Where I've been many a time:
Well, it's very nice drinking ale
But it's much better drinking wine
And it's far better sleeping in that bonny girl's arms
Where I've been many a time:
Once I had time enough
To flourish night and day
Until that girl, that bonny, bonny girl
Come and stole all my time away:
So now my whole time is gone
And I cannot plant any new
For the very same place where the old thyme grew
It's all over running, running rue:
Oh the rue, that running, running rue
That's not the flower for me
I will pluck up all that running, running rue
And plant down the sturdy oak tree:
Stand you fast, stand you fast, sturdy oak
Stand you fast, don't ever die
I will prove as true to my own true love
As the stars prove true to the sky:
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