I once was invited to a nobleman's wedding And all that were there were to
sing just one song The first one to sing was the bride's former lover The song that he sang was of days that were gone.
How
can you sit at another man's table How can you drink of another man's wine How can you lie on another man's pillow You
being so long a true-love of mine?
The bride she was seated at the head of the table Hearing those words she remembered
so well Verse after verse, she could bear it no longer Till down at the foot of the table she fell.
One request,
one request, from you that I'm asking The first and the last, this favour shall be And that is the first night to lie
with my mother All the rest of my days I will lie beside thee.
Sighing and sobbing, she arose from the table Sighing
and sobbing, she went to her bed Early next morning when her husband awakened He went to 'brace her and found she was
dead.
O Molly, lovely Molly, cruel-hearted Molly I loved you better than you'll ever love me But I stole you
away from your true-lover Johnny It's then I separated the bark from the tree.
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