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(33) Page 331 - Fine flowers in the valley
Fine flowers in the Valley.
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Smile na fae fweet, my bonie babe
Fine flowers in the valley, -
And ye fmile fae fweet, ye'll fmile me dead,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.
Sfces taen out her little penknife
Fine flowers &c.
And twinn'd the fweet babe o' its life .
And the green &c.
She's howket a grave by the light o' the moon,
Fine flowers &c
And there fhes buried tier fweet babe in,
And the green tec.
As fhe was going to the church,
Fine flowers tec. •*
She faw a fweet babe in the porch.
And the green tee.
fweet babe and thou were mine,
Fine flowers tec.
1 wad deed thee in the filk fo fine.
And the green tec..
O mother dear, when I was thine,
Fine flowers tec.
You did ?na prove to me fae kind.
And the green tec.
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