The Wife Of Usher's Well Lyrics - Bellowhead Live: The Farewell Tour - Bellowhead

There lived a wife at Usher's Well 

And a wealthy wife, a wife was she 

She had three stout and stalwart sons 

And she sent them out over the sea 

They had not been a week from her 

A week, a week but barely one 

When word it came to the carline wife 

That her three sons, her sons were gone 

They had not been a week from her 

A week, a week but barely three 

When word it came to the carline wife 

That her three sons she'd never see 

"I wish the wind may never cease 

Nor fashes, nor fashes in the flood 

Till my three sons come home to me 

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In earthly flesh, in flesh and blood!" 

It fell about on the Martinmas, 

When nights were long and dark 

The carline wife's three sons came home 

And their hats were of the bark 

It neither grew in syke nor ditch 

Nor yet in any wood 

But at the gates of Paradise 

The birch trees where they stood 

"Blow up the fire, my maidens three! 

Bring water, bring water from the well! 

For all my house we shall feast this night! 

Since my three sons, my sons are well!" 

And she has made for them a bed 

She's made it large and she's made it wide 

She's took her mantle thereabout 

She's down, sat down at their bedside 

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Up then crew the red, red cock 

Then up and crew the rooster grey 

The eldest to the youngest said 

"Tis time, tis time we were away" 

The cock he had not crowed but once 

And clapped his wings, his wings and all 

When the youngest to the eldest said 

"Oh Brother, brother we must away" 

"The cock does crow, the day does dawn 

The channering worm does chide 

And we must be out of our place 

A sore pain we must bide" 

"And fare thee well to our mother dear 

Farewell to barn and byre 

And fare thee well to the bonny lass 

That kindles my mother's fire!" 

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It fell about on the Martinmas, 

When nights were long and dark 

The carline wife's three sons came home 

And their hats were of the bark