[ti:Cruel Sister]
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[al:Cruel Sister]
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[00:01.50]There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
[00:06.22]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[00:10.47]Two daughters were the babes she bore
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[00:19.57]Alternating with each of the lines below
[00:21.41]As one grew bright as is the sun
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[00:24.37]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[00:28.29]So coal black grew the elder one
[00:33.09]Fa la la la la la la la la la
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[00:46.39]A knight came riding to the lady's door
[00:50.96]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[00:54.96]He'd travelled far to be their wooer
[00:59.88]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[01:04.11]He courted one with gloves and rings
[01:08.77]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[01:12.73]But he loved the other above all things
[01:17.70]Fa la la la la la la la la la
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[01:40.07]Oh sister will you go with me
[01:44.75]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[01:48.68]To watch the ships sail on the sea
[01:53.45]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[01:57.56]She took her sister by the hand
[02:02.34]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[02:06.60]And led her down to
[02:09.10]The North Sea strand
[02:11.38]Fa la la la la la la la la la
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[02:24.41]And as they stood on the windy shore
[02:29.00]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[02:33.18]The dark girl threw her sister o'er
[02:37.81]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[02:42.02]Sometimes she sank sometimes she swam
[02:46.78]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[02:50.84]Crying Sister reach to me your hand
[02:55.67]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[02:59.76]Oh Sister Sister let me live
[03:04.67]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[03:08.65]And all that's mine I'll surely give
[03:13.41]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[03:17.46]It's your own true love
[03:19.12]That I'll have and more
[03:22.39]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[03:26.42]But thou shalt never come ashore
[03:31.05]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[03:35.27]And there she floated like a swan
[03:40.03]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[03:43.93]The salt sea bore her body on
[03:49.04]Fa la la la la la la la la la
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[04:10.76]Two minstrels walked along the strand
[04:15.23]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[04:19.21]And saw the maiden float to land
[04:24.08]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[04:28.09]They made a harp of her breastbone
[04:33.30]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[04:36.98]Whose sound would melt a heart of stone
[04:41.79]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[04:45.80]They took three locks of her yellow hair
[04:50.75]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[04:54.45]And with them strung the harp so rare
[04:59.25]Fa la la la la la la la la la
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[05:21.18]They went into her father's hall
[05:25.71]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[05:29.77]To play the harp before them all
[05:34.39]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[05:38.71]But when they laid it on a stone
[05:43.20]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[05:47.25]The harp began to play alone
[05:51.85]Fa la la la la la la la la la
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[06:04.73]The first string sang a doleful sound
[06:09.28]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[06:13.26]The bride her younger sister drowned
[06:17.94]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[06:22.20]The second string as that they tried
[06:26.60]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[06:30.90]In terror sits the black-haired bride
[06:35.65]Fa la la la la la la la la la
[06:39.77]The third string sang beneath their bow
[06:44.32]Lay the bent to the bonnie broom
[06:48.13]And surely now her tears will flow
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[06:56.53]Cruel Sister - Pentangle