Song from the movie "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
[Verse 1]
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As I was a walking down by the loch
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As I was a walking one morning of late
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Who should I spy but my own dear comrade?
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Wrapped up in flannel, so hard is his fate
[Verse 2]
D G Bm A
I boldly stepped up to and kindly did ask him
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Why are you wrapped up in flannel so white?
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My body is injured and sadly disordered
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All by a young woman, my own heart's delight
[Bridge]
D G A A
Oh had she but told me when she disordered me
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Had she but told me of it at the time
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I might have got salts or pills of white mercury
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But now I'm cut down in the height of my prime
[Verse 3]
D G Bm A
Get six pretty maidens to carry my coffin
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And six pretty maidens to bear up my pall
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And give to each of them bunches of roses
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That they may not smell me as they go a-long