By the margin of the ocean, One pleasant ev;'ning in the month of June, When all those feathered songsters Their liquid notes did sweetly tune, 'Twas
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Take care daughter dear Don?t dream of many gallant men tonight Take care daughter dear For the doctor comes to steal your goods in the dead of night
I've heard them lilting ?At are? you milking And I've heard them lilting Before light a-day Now they are mourning For all time a-lilting The flowers
When the stone is grown too cold to kneel In crystal waters I'll be bound Cold as stone, weary to the sounds upon the wheel Now be thankful for good
Won?t you rise for the hangman His pleasure is that you should rise He?s the judge and the jury At the jester?s assize Poor Will on the gallows tree
Just a roll, just a roll Just a roll on your drum Just a roll, just a roll And the war has begun Now the right things, the wrong things No more excuses
Come ye young men, come along, With your music and your song. Bring your lasses in your hands For 'tis that which love commands. Chorus (after each
Walk awhile, walk awhile, walk awhile with me The more we walk together love, the better we?ll agree We?ll agree One hand in your mouth and a finger
The King sits in Dunfirmline town, drinking of the blood-red wine "Where can I get a steely skipper to sail this might boat of mine?" Then up there
As I walked out on a midsummer's morning For to view the fields and to take the air Down by the banks of the sweet primroses There I beheld a most ?love
A holiday, a holiday, and the first one of the year Lord Donald's wife came into the church, the gospel for to hear And when the meeting it was done,
Yellow bird, yellow bird, up high in banana tree. Yellow bird, you sit all alone like me. Did your lady friend leave your nest again? That is very
