There lived a wife in Usher's Well
A wealthy wife was she
She had three stout and stalwart sons
And sent them o'er the sea
They had not been from Usher's Well
A week but barely one
When word came to this carline wife
That her three sons were gone
"I wish the wind may never, never cease
Nor flashes in the flood
Till my three sons return to me
In earthly flesh and blood
Earthly flesh and blood."
It fell about the Martinmas
The nights were long and dark
Three sons came home to Usher's Well
Their hats were made of bark
That neither grew in forest green
Nor on any wooded rise
But from the north side of the tree
That grows in Paradise
A wealthy wife was she
She had three stout and stalwart sons
And sent them o'er the sea
They had not been from Usher's Well
A week but barely one
When word came to this carline wife
That her three sons were gone
"I wish the wind may never, never cease
Nor flashes in the flood
Till my three sons return to me
In earthly flesh and blood
Earthly flesh and blood."
It fell about the Martinmas
The nights were long and dark
Three sons came home to Usher's Well
Their hats were made of bark
That neither grew in forest green
Nor on any wooded rise
But from the north side of the tree
That grows in Paradise
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