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[Verse 1]
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As it fell out on a cold Winter day
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The drops of rain did fall
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Our savior asked leave of his mother Mary
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If he might go play at ball


[Bridge 1]
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"Go up the hill,"
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His mother said
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"And there you will find
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"Three jolly children,
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"But let me hear no complaint of you
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"When you come home again"


[Verse 2]
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But the children said, "We are royal son,
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"And we will not play at ball.
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"For you are but a poor maid's child
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"Born in an oxen stall."


[Instrumetal]
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[Verse 3]
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"If you are lords' and ladies' sons
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"And you will not play at ball
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"I'll build you a bridge of the beams of the sun
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"To play upon us all"


[Bridge 2]

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And he built them a bridge of the beams of the sun
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And over the pools they played all three
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And the mother's called, "Mary,
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"Call home your child,
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'Ere ours all drownéd be"


[Chorus]
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Mary mild, (Mary mild), (Mary mild),
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Mary mild, (Mary mild)
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Called home her child
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And when she asked him, why said he:


[Verse 4]
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"Oh, I built them a bridge of the beams of the sun,
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"So they would play at ball with me
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"So they would play with me."