| It’s of two noble butchers as I have heard men say
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| Started out from London all on a market day
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| And as they were a-riding as fast as they could ride
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| «Oh, stop your horse,» says Johnson, «for I hear some woman cry.»
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| «I will not stop,» says Wilson; |
| «I will not stop,» says he;
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| «I will not stop,» says Wilson, «for robbed we shall be.»
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| Johnson, he got off his horse, searched the woods all 'round
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| And there he spied a woman with her hair pinned to the ground
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| «How came you here, dear woman? |
| How came you here fast bound?
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| How came you here this morning with your hair pinned to the ground?»
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| «They robbed me, they stripped me, they left me here fast bound
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| They left me here this morning with my hair pinned to the ground.»
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| May God keep all good people
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| May God keep all good people
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| May God keep all good people from such bad company
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| Then Johnson, he being a valiant man and a man of courage bold
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| He took his coat from off his back to keep her from the cold
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| And as they were a-riding as fast as they could ride
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| She put a whistle to her mouth and she gave three shivering cries
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| Up jumped three bold and swaggering men with swords all in their hands
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| Who then commanded Johnson, commanded him to stand
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| «I'll stop, I’ll stand,» says Johnson, «as long as I can stand
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| For never was I, in all my life, afraid of any man.»
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| May God keep all good people
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| May God keep all good people
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| May God keep all good people from such bad company
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| Oh, two of them he quickly slew and the third he did not mind
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| Till the false young woman took a knife and stabbed him from behind
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| Poor Johnson he spun round about and he fell down to the ground
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| And he cursed that wretched woman who gave him his death wound
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| Now the day it being a market day, there were people travelling by
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| Who saw the awful murder, who saw poor Johnson die
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| Now Johnson he was a valiant man, and a valiant man was he;
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| May God keep all good people from such bad company
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| May God keep all good people
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| May God keep all good people
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| May God keep all good people from such bad company |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Two Butchers , by - Steeleye Span. Song from the album The Collection - Steeleye Span in Concert, in the genre Фолк-рок