Mary Blaize-Kate Rusby

[ti:Mary Blaize] [ar:Kate Rusby] [al:The Girl Who Couldn't Fly] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mary Blaize - Kate Rusby [00:27.23]Good people all with one accord [00:30.61]Lament for Mary Blaize [00:33.73]She never wanted one good word [00:36.93]From those who spoke her praise [00:40.11]The needy seldom passed her door [00:43.30]And always found her kind [00:46.18]She freely lent to all the poor [00:49.43]Who left a pledge behind [00:53.61]She strove the neighbour hood to please [00:56.86]With manners wondrous winning [00:59.80]She never followed wicked ways [01:03.18]Unless when she was sinning [01:06.43]At church in silks and satins new [01:09.49]With hoop of monstrous size [01:12.61]She never slumbered in her pew [01:16.06]But when she closed her eyes [01:19.93] [01:24.31]Her love was sought I do declare [01:27.25]By twenty beaux and more [01:30.25]The King himself did seem to care [01:33.62]Where she had walked before [01:37.06]But wealth and finery all fled [01:40.13]And hangers-on all gone [01:43.13]The doctors found when she was dead [01:46.37]The life within her none [01:50.12] [02:02.43]Good people all with one accord [02:05.75]Lament for Mary Blaize [02:08.68]Who never wanted one good word [02:12.13]From those who spoke her praise [02:15.25]The needy seldom passed her door [02:18.37]And always found her kind [02:21.31]She freely lent to all the poor [02:24.75]Who left a pledge behind [02:27.93]Let us lament in sorrow sore [02:31.21]For Kent Street well may say [02:34.77]That had she lived a twelve month more [02:37.52]She had not died today