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When first to this country as a stranger |
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I came I placed my affection on a comely young dame |
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She being warm and tender, her waist small and slender |
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Kind Nature had formed her for my overthrow |
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On the banks of |
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Bann water, where |
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I first beheld her |
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She appeared like fair |
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Juno or a |
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Grecian queen |
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Her eyes shone like diamonds, her hair softly twining |
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Her cheeks were like roses, or like blood drops in snow |
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It was her cruel parents that first caused our variance |
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All because |
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I was poor and of a low degree |
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But I'll do my endeavour to earn my love's favour |
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Although she is come of a rich family |
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My name is |
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Delaney, its a name that wont shame me |
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And if I had saved money |
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I'd have plenty in store |
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But drinking and courting, night rambling and sporting |
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Were the cause of my ruin and absence from home |
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Had I all the money that's in the |
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West Indies |
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Or had I the gold of the |
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African shore |
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I would spend it on pearls, and on you my brown girl |
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For there's no other love in this world |
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I adore And now that |
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I've found her |
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I'm contented forever |
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I'll put rings on her fingers and gold in her hair |
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And we'll live on the banks of the lovely |
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Bann river |
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And in all sorts of splendour |
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I will style her my dear. |
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One of several songs with this name. |
