When I Was a Young Girl Lyrics

Lyric discussion by AlgernonMabus 

Cover art for When I Was a Young Girl lyrics by Feist

The last line should be "all wrapped in white linen and cold as the clay." It's a line from an old cowboy song called Streets of Laredo.

Then again, it does sound an awful lot like "called out the plague," so I'm going to guess Feist just misheard the lyrics when she incorporated them into this song.