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[alexmegami]

(this is a variation on a song from the 1700s called Captain Wedderburn's Courtship.)

A nobleman's fair daughter came down the narrow lane,
Met with Captain Wedderburn, the keeper of the game.
"Now my pretty fair miss, if it wasn't for the law,
Then you and I in a bed might lie,
Roll me over next to the wall,
Roll me over next to the wall."

"Now my dear good man," she said,"do not be perplexed.
Before that you might bed with me, you must answer questions six.
Six questions you must answer me, and I will ask them all.
Then you and I in a bed might lie,
Roll me over next to the wall,
Roll me over next to the wall."

"What is rounder than a ring?
And higher than the trees?
What is worse than a woman's curse?
And what is deeper than the sea?
Which bird sings first, which one best?
Where does the dew first fall?
Then you and I in a bed might lie,
Roll me over next to the wall,
Roll me over next to the wall."

"The Earth is rounder than a ring,
And Heaven is higher than the trees.
The Devil is worse than a woman's curse,
And Hell is deeper than the sea.
The lark sings first, and the thrush sings best,
And the Earth is where the dew falls,
And you and I in a bed must lie,
Roll me over next to the wall,
Roll me over next to the wall."

He takes her by her lily white hand, and leads her down the hall
He takes her by her slender waist, for fear that she might fall
And lays her on a bed of down without a doubt at all,
and he and she lie in one bed, roll me over next to the wall
She and he lie in one bed, roll me over next to the wall.
Roll me over next to the wall,
Roll me over next to the wall.

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