Songs For My Own Enjoyment: Polly Von



Polly Von
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Category: Calm
Link: Performance Example
Notes: Trational Ballad

Intro
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I shall tell of a hunter whose life was undone  
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By the cruel hand of evil at the setting of the sun  
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His arrow was loosed and it flew through the dark,  
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And his true love was slain as the sha-aft found it's mark  
   
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She'd her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan  
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And it's oh and alas it was she-e, Polly Vaughn  
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He ran up beside her and found it was she  
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He turned away his head for he could not bear to see  
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He lifted her up and found she was dead,  
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A fountain of tears for his tru-ue love, he shed.  
   
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For she'd her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan  
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And it's oh and alas it was she-e, Polly Vaughn  
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He bore her away to his home by the sea  
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Cried, "Father, oh father, I murdered poor Polly!  
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I've killed my fair love in the flower of her life!  
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I had always intended that she-e'd be my wife."  
   
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"But she'd her apron wrapped about her and I took her for a swan  
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And it's oh and alas, it was she-e, Polly Vaughn."  
   
Instrumental
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He roamed near the place where his true love was slain  
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He wept bitter tears, but his cries were all in vain.  
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As he looked on the lake, a swan glided by  
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And the sun slowly sank in the gre-ey of the sky.  
   
            C                                            E7   
She'd her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan  
         Am                 Dm  E7        Am     
And it's oh and alas it was she-e, Polly Vaughn  
   
                 C                                             E7   
Well, whe'd her apron wrapped about her and he took her for a swan  
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And it's oh and alas it was she-e, Polly Vaughn  
Outro
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