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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 373 |
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Therefore desist from your solicitations, I am engaged,
I declare it's true, To a lad I love beyond all earthly treasures, and he'll
soon embrace his Colleen Rue." |
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THE CROPPY BOY
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T was very early in the spring, The birds did whistle and sweetly sing, Changing their notes from tree to tree, And the song they sang was old Ireland free.
It was early in the night, The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright; The yeoman cavalry was my downfall, And taken was I by Lord Cornwall.
'Twas in the guard-house where I was laid, And in a parlor where I was tried ; My sentence passed and my courage low When to Dungannon I was forced to gcr.
As I was passing by my father's door, My brother William stood at the door; My aged father stood at the door, And my tender mother her hair she tore.
As I was walking up Wexford Street
My own first cousin I chanced to meet;
My own first cousin did me betray,
And for one bare guinea swore my life away. |
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