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	IX. MISCELLANEOUS                          297
	No. 316. It was in sweet Senegal. Tune: The slave's lament Scots Musical Museum, 1792, No. 384.
	It was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral For the lands of Virginia, -ginia, O : Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more, ) ,. And alas ! I am weary, weary, O.                                   ) All on that charming coast is ho bitter snow and frost, Like the lands of Virginia, -ginia, O : There streams for ever flow, and the flowers for ever blow, ) ^.^ And alas! I am weary, weary, O.                                       )
	The burden I must bear, while the cruel scourge I fear, In the lands of Virginia, -ginia, O ; And I think on friends most dear with the bitter, bitter tear, ) ,. And alas ! I am weary, weary, O.                                          )
	No. 317. One night as I did wander. Tune : John Anderson my jo (see No. 212). One night as I did wander, When corn begins to shoot, I sat me down to ponder Upon an auld tree root: Auld Ayr ran by before me, And bicker'd to the seas ; A cushat crooded o'er me, That echo'd through the trees.