Ballads and Songs of Indiana - online book

A collection of 100 traditional folk songs with commentaries, historical info, lyrics & sheet music

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344 Indiana University Publications, Folklore Series
4.      He is a gallant soldier;
His charger comes to stand ; The ladies clap their hands with joy-When they see the Blue-Coat Man.
5.     She asked him in her parlor; She cooled him with her fan;
She whispered low in her mother's ear, "I love the Blue-Coat Man."
6.   "O daughter, O daughter,
How can you treat me so,
To leave your kind old mother
And with your Blue-Coat go?"
7.   "0 mother, 0 mother,
You know I love you well,
But the love I have for my Blue-Coat Man
No human tongue can tell."