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IN THE VALLEY BELOW

(learned from the Penguin Song Book in about 1956)

(music here)
(music calligraphy by miriam berg)

Early one morning, just as the sun was rising
I heard a maid a-singing in the valley below.
    O don't deceive me, O never leave me,
    How could you use a poor maiden so?

Remember the vows that you made to your Mary,
Remember the bower where you promised to be true.
    O don't deceive me, (etc.)

O, gay is the garland, and fresh are the roses
I've culled from the garden to bind on thy brow.
    O don't deceive me, (etc.)

Thus sang the poor maid, her sorrows bewailing,
Thus sung the maiden in the valley below.
    O don't deceive me, (etc.)<