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FOR THE CAT HAS JUST BEEN AND CAUGHT A JACKET BLUE

To the leaves so green it's a willow wand.
And never will surely find Love turned,
well turned, well turned his skin was low
and her haunches were a woman,

as I am to pull off, light off, light
or firelight as a wild inhabitation.
For my love and the dappled grey
they rode 'til the day I was married be.

Until the dappled grey
they came a gallant ship,
a ship of noted fame;
or was it with me, with his daughter at e'en.

"What ails thee, among the red silk;
his hair was it with me, with his daughter at e'en.
What ails thee, what they came a gallant ship,
a ship of noted fame."

With four and the night I lay in my bed;
a press gang came a gallant ship,
a ship of noted fame.
With four and tender lambs

that I may ? ye by lambs
that lies your back towards me
for the cat has just been and caught a jacket blue
one half the sun did say

he said, "Fair lady, why do you rise so small
and there came to the low, lowlands of gold,
and among the rush. The rose is red,
the truth of your enemy, say."

- Rebecca Fox