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On the Banks of the Roses
The Jolly Beggarmen
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On the banks of the roses me love and I sat down
And I took out me fiddle for to play me love a tune
In the middle of the tune-o she sighed and she said
"Irish Johnny, lovely Johnny, don't you leave me"
Well when I was a young man I heard me father say
That he would rather see me dead and buried in the clay
Sooner than get married to any runaway
By the lovely sweet banks of the roses
On the banks of the roses me love and I sat down
And I took out me fiddle for to play me love a tune
In the middle of the tune-o she sighed and she said
"Irish Johnny, lovely Johnny, don't you leave me"
And now I am a runaway and soon I've got to know
That I can take a bottle or can leave it alone
And if her daddy doesn't like it he can keep his daughter at home
And then Johnny will go roving with another
On the banks of the roses me love and I sat down
And I took out me fiddle for to play me love a tune
In the middle of the tune-o she sighed and she said
"Irish Johnny, lovely Johnny, don't you leave me"
And when I get married it'll be in the month of May
When the leaves they are green and the meadows they are gay
Then me and me true love will sit and sport and play
By the lovely sweet banks of the roses
On the banks of the roses me love and I sat down
And I took out me fiddle for to play me love a tune
In the middle of the tune-o she sighed and she said
"Irish Johnny, lovely Johnny, don't you leave me"
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