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   When I Was A Young Girl
  Sebastian Mure
   
  When I was a young girl I used to see pleasure
When I was a young girl I used to drink ale
Right out of the ale house and into the jail house
Right out of the bar room and down to my grave

Come mama come papa sit you beside me
Come mama come papa and pity my case
My poor heart is aching my heart it is breaking
My body salve-aided and I'm bound to die

Go send for the preacher to come and pray for me
Go send for the doctor to heal up my
My poor heart is aching my heart it is breaking
My body salve-aided and hell is my home

I want three young ladies to bear up my coffin
I want three young ladies to take me along
I want them to carry a bunch of wild roses
To put on my body as I pass along

One morning one morning in May
One morning one morning in May
I spy this young lady all clad in white linnen
All clad in white linnen cold as a clay

When I was a young girl I used to see pleasure
When I was a young girl I used to drink ale
Right out of the bar room
Right out of the ale house and into the jail house
Right out of the bar room down to my grave
 
   
  Recording session unknown
    CD 1994 The Tomato Collection Tomato R2 71712 [4:57]
    CD 1996 Anthology, The Colpix Years Rhino R2 72567
   
  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 [5:57]
    CD 1998 Folksy + With Strings Collectables [5:57]
    CD 1999 Forbidden Fruit+Sings Ellington+Folksy Nina West Side WESD 225
   
  Recording live session 1968, Paris, Olympia?
    LP 1972 Right On Vogue SLDRK 836 [0:02]
    LP 1975 The Great Show Live in Paris Festival [4:50]
    LP 1977 Live in Europe Trip TLP-8020(2) [4:50]
    CD 1988 Ne Me Quitte Pas Mode 670030 [0:02]
    CD 1988 The Great Show Live in Paris Accord 401672 [4:50]
    CD 1989 The Story Dejavu DVRECD 15 [0:50]
    CD 1990 51 Great Jazz Performances That's Jazz TJ401 [5:02]
 
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