Correction Lyrics Johnny of Brady’s Lea by Christy Moore

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Oh, Johnny rose on a May morning, called for water to wash his hands
Says “Bring to me my two grey dogs, lay bound in iron bands.”

When Johnny's mother she heard of this, she wrung her hands full sore
Says “Johnny, for your venison to the green woods do not go.”

“For there are seven foresters in Esselment, and this you know full well
For one small drop of your heart’s blood they would ride to the gates of Hell.”

“Oh, there's many men are my friends, Mother, Though many more are my foe
And betide me well or betide me ill, A-hunting I will go.”

So Johnny has taken his good bent bow, his arrows one by one
And he's away to Mony Musk for to bring the dun deer down

Oh, Johnny shot and the dun deer lept, he’s wounded her in the side
And between the water and the woods, the two dogs laid her pride

And they ate so much of the venison, they drank so much of the blood
That Johnny and his two grey dogs fell asleep as if they had been dead

And by there came a sly old man, a sly old man was he
And he's away to Esselment for to tell on young Johnny

“As I came in by Mony Musk, and down among yon scroggs
It was there I spied the bonniest dude lying sleeping between two dogs.”

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