Among The Oak And Ash - Come All You Tenderhearted
[Verse 1]
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Come all you tenderhearted
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Your attention I will call
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I'll tell you how it started
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Please listen one and all
[Verse 2]
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Last Wednesday night, there was a light
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Seen shining on a hill
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A mother ran with all her might
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While everything was still
[Verse 3]
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She went into a neighbour's house
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Some hundred yards away
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She sat down, talked with them awhile
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But she did not mean to stay
[Verse 4]
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"Don't stay too long, dear mother, there
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For we'll be lonesome here"
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"I'll get some liniment", she said
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"Then I'll return again"
[Verse 5]
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But when she started home again
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Her house was in a flame
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She cried, "Oh lord, my babies they're gone
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And I'm the one to blame"
[Verse 6]
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She bursted all asunder then
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And the flames rolled overhead
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Their little bones lay on the ground
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And they lay face to face
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Each other did entwine
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Each other did embrace