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Alfred Deller – The Three Ravens lyrics
THERE were three ravens sat on a tree,
They were as black as they might be.

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The one of them said to his make,
'Where shall we our breakfast take?'

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'Down in yonder greenи field 5
There lies a knight slain under his shield;

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'His hounds they lie down at his feet.
So well do they their master keep;

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'His hawks they flie so eagerly,
There's no fowl dare come him nigh. 10

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'Down there comes a fallow doe
As great with young as she might goe.

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'She lift up his bloudy head
And kist his wounds that were so red.

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'She gat him up upon her back 15
And carried him to earthen lake.

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'She buried him before the prime,
She was dead herself ere evensong time.

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'God send every gentleman
Such hounds, such hawks, and such a leman! ' 20
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