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   Lass of the Low Country
  Traditional
   
  Oh she was a lass from the low country
And he was a lord of high degree
But she loved him oh so tenderly
Oh sorrow sing sorrow
Now she sleeps in the valley where the wild flowers nod
No-one knows how she loved him but herself and God

One day when the snow was on the mead
She passed him by on a milk white steed
And she spoke to him low nobody paid no need
Oh sorrow sing sorrow
Now she sleeps in the valley where the wild flowers nod
No-one knows how she loved him but herself and God

Now if you be a lass from the low country
Don't love no man of high degree
For he don't got a heart or no sympathy
Oh sorrow sing sorrow
Now she sleeps in the valley where wild flowers nod
No-one knows how she loved him but herself and God
 
   
  Recording live session 1963 May 12, New York, Carnegie Hall -- (LPs At Carnegie Hall and Folksy Nina)
    LP 1964 Folksy Nina Colpix CP/SCP 465 [6:15]
    CD 1998 Folksy + With Strings Collectables [6:15]
    CD 1999 Forbidden Fruit+Sings Ellington+Folksy Nina West Side WESD 225
 
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