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Winds Blew Across the Wild Moor (Mary Died at Her Father's Door) 
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Winds Blew Across the Wild Moor (Mary Died at Her Father's Door) 
On a cold winter's night When the winds blew across the wild moor Young Mary came wandering with her child in her arms till she came to her own father's door 
"Oh father, dear father," she cried "Come down and open the door Or the child in my arms, it will perish and die By the winds that blow across the wild moor" 
But the old man was deaf to her cries Not a sound of her voice reached his ear The watchdog did howl and the village bell tolled And the winds blew across the wild moor 
Oh, how must the old man have felt When he came to the door in the morn? Young Mary was dead, but the child was alive Close pressed in its dead mother's arms 
Ah, frenzied he tore his grey hairs While the tears down his cheeks they did pour Saying, "This cold winter's night, she has perished and died By the winds that blew across the wild moor" 
The old man grieved, pined away And the child to its mother went soon No on, they say, has lived there to this day And the cottage has gone to ruin 
And the villagers point out the spot Where the willows weep o'er the door Saying, "There Mary died, once a gay village bride By the winds that blew across the wild moor" 
printed in Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin