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Henry Lee by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds & PJ Harvey

Get down, get down, (1)____________ Henry Lee
And stay all (2)__________ (3)________ me
You won't find a girl in this (4)________ world
That will compare with me
And the wind did howl and the wind did blow
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit (5)________ on (6)__________ Lee

I can't get down and I won't get down
And stay all night (7)________ thee
For the girl I have in that (8)__________ (9)__________ land
I love far (10)____________ than thee
And the wind did howl and the (11)________ did blow
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A (12)____________ bird lit down on (13)__________ Lee

She leaned herself against a fence
Just for a (14)________ or two
And with a (15)____________ pen-knife held in her hand
Well, she plugged him through and through
And the (16)________ did roar and the wind did moan
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

Come take him by his lilly-white hands
Come (17)________ him by his feet
And throw him in this deep deep well
Is more than one hundred feet
And the (18)________ did howl and the wind did blow
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee

Lie there, lie there, (19)____________ (20)__________ Lee
Till the (21)__________ drops from your bones
For the girl you have in that merry green land
Can (22)________ forever for you to come home
And the wind did howl and the wind did moan
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit down on Henry Lee
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit down on (23)__________ Lee
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit down on (24)__________ Lee
(La la la la la)
(La la la la lee)
A little bird lit (25)________ on Henry Lee

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