Two pretty boys were going to school,
Going to the very same school
Then one to the other said
"O can you throw a stone?"
"Well, I can either throw a stone
Or a little play at the maul
But if you come with me to the merry green woods
I will try you a wrestle and fall."
So they went down to the merry green woods,
To try a wrestle and fall.
Then big brother John took his little penknife
And stabbed William to the ground.
"Do you take off my white linen shirt
And tear it from gore to gore
And wrap it round my bloody wound
That the blood may flow no more."
He took off his white linen shirt
And he tore it from gore to gore
And wrapped it round the bloody wound
But the blood came ten times more.
"What will I tell your father dear
Tonight when I go home?"
"Tell him I'm away to a London school
And a good boy I'll return."
"What will I tell your step-mother
Tonight when I go home?"
"Tell her the last prayer she prayed for me
Was that I would never return."
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