Cruel Sister - Live

There lived a lady by the North Sea shore
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 Two daughters were the babes she bore
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 As one grew bright as is the sun
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 So coal black grew the elder one
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 A knight came riding to the lady's door
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 He'd traveled far to be their wooer
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 He courted one with gloves and rings
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 But he loved the other above all things
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 Oh, sister will you go with me
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 To watch the ships sail on the sea?
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 She took her sister by the hand
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 And led her down to the North Sea strand
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 And as they stood on the windy shore
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 The dark girl threw her sister over
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 Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam
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 Crying, "Sister, reach to me your hand"
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 Oh sister, sister, let me live
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 And all that's mine I'll surely give
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 Your own true love that I'll have and more
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 But thou shalt never come ashore
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 And there she floated like a swan
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 The salt sea bore her body on
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 Two minstrels walked along the strand
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 And saw the maiden float to land
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 They made a harp of her breastbone
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 Whose sound would melt a heart of stone
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 They took three locks of her yellow hair
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 And with them strung the harp so rare
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 They went into her father's hall
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 To play the harp before them all
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 But when they laid it on a stone
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 The harp began to play alone
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 The first string sang a doleful sound
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 The bride her younger sister drowned
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 The second string as that they tried
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 In terror sits the black-haired bride
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 The third string sang beneath their bow
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 And surely now her tears will flow
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