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Step It Out, Mary

from The Elmsley Count by Adam Fromm

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In the village of Kildori
There's a maiden young and fair
Her eyes they shone like diamonds
She had lovely golden hair
When the country man came riding
Up to her father's gate
Mounted on a milk-white stallion
He came at the stroke of eight

Chorus:
Oh, step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
Marry if you can
Oh, step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
Show your legs to the wealthy, to the wealthy man

"I've come to court your daughter
Mary of the golden hair
I have land and I have money
I have goods beyond compare
I'll buy her silk and satin
And a gold ring for her hand
I'll build for her a mansion
She'll have servants to command"

(Chorus)

"But sir, I love a soldier
And I've pledged to him my hand
I don't want your goods nor money
I won't have your house and land"
But her father spoke up quick and sharp
"You'll do as you are told
You'll be married on this Sunday
And you'll wear his ring of gold"

(Chorus)

In the village of Kildori
There's a deep stream running by
They found Mary there at midnight
Where she drowned with her soldier boy
But in the cottage, there was music
And you could hear her father say
"Step it out, Mary, my fine daughter
Don't you know it's the wedding day"

(Chorus)

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from The Elmsley Count, released November 22, 2011

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New England transplant from Illinois via upstate New York, and a singer/songwriter who finally decided that the walls of his living room weren't a big enough audience. He is one-half of the folk band Murder Ballads, specifically the half with more facial hair. ... more

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