ALISON GROSS           Trad. arr. Steeleye Span


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Alison Gross, that lives in yon tower,
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The ugliest witch in the North Country,
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Has trysted me one day up to her bower
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And many a fair speech she made to me.


She stroked my head and she combed my hair
She set me down softly on her knee
Saying "If you will be my lover so true
So many good things I would give to thee."

"Away, away, you ugly witch
Go far away and let me be
I never would be your lover so true
And I wish I were out of your company,"

Chorus:
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Alison Gross, she must be
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The ugliest witch in the North Country
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Alison Gross, she must be
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The ugliest witch in the North Country



She showed me a mantle of red scarlet
With golden flowers and fringes fine
Saying "If you would be my lover so true
This goodly gift it shall be thine."

She showed me a shirt of the softest silk
Well wrought with pearls about the band
Saying "If you would be my lover so true
This goodly gift you shall command,"


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She brought me a cup of the good red gold
Well set with jewels so fair to see
Saying "If you would be my lover so true
This goodly gift I would give to thee,"

"Away, away, you ugly witch
Go far away and let me be
I never would be your lover so true
For all of the gifts that you would give


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She turned her right and round about,
And thrice she blew on a grass-green horn.
She swore by the moon and the stars up above
That she'd make me rue the day I was born

Then out she has taken a silver wand
She's turned her three times round and round
She's muttered such words till my strength it did fail,
And she's turned me into an ugly worm

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