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Joseph and Mary walked through an orchard green
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They saw berries and saw cherries fair to be seen.
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As Joseph and Mary walked in the wood
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They saw cherries and berries red as any blood.
[Verse 2]
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Oh then bespoke Mary so meek and so mild,
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"Pluck me one cherry for I am with child."
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Oh then bespoke Joseph with words unkind,
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"Let him pluck thee a cherry that brought thee with child."
[Verse 3]
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Oh then bespoke the babe within his mother's womb,
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"Bow down your tall tree and give my mother some."
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Then bowed down the cherry tree to his mother's hand.
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Then she cried "see Joseph I have cherries at command."
[Verse 4]
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Then Mary plucked a cherry as red as the blood.
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She went home with her heavy load.
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Then Mary took her babe all on her knee,
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Saying "my dear son tell me what this world will be."
[Verse 5]
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"Oh I shall be as dead as the stones in the wall.
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Oh the stones in the streets shall mourn me all.
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Upon Easter day uprisen I'll be
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For the sun and moon shall both rise with me."
