verse 1
As I went out walking, one morning in June
To view the fair fields, and the valleys in bloom;
I spied a pretty fair maid, she a-ppeared like a queen,
With - her costly fine robes and her mantle so green
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verse 2
Says I, my pretty fair maid, won?t you come with me,
We'll both join in wedlock, and married we'll be;
I will dress you in fine linen, you'll a-ppear like a queen,
With - your costly fine robes and your mantle so green.
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verse 3
Says she, now my young man, you must be ex-cused,
For I'll wed with no man, so you must be re-fused;
To the green woods I will wander and shun all men's view
For - the boy I love dearly lies in famed Water-loo.
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verse 4
Well, if you're not married, say your lover's name
I fought in that battle, so I might know the same.
Draw near to my garment, and there you will see
His ? name is em-broidered on my mantle so green.
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Verse 5
In the ribbon of her mantle, there I did be-hold,
His name and his surname, in letters of gold
Young William O'Riley, a-ppeared in my view
He ? was my chief comrade back in famed Water-loo
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Verse 6
And as he lay dying, I heard his last cry
?If you were here lovely Nancy I'd be willing to die?
And as I told her this story, in anguish she flew,
And - the more that I told her, the paler she grew
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Verse 7
So I smiled on my Nancy, 'twas I broke your heart,
In your fathers garden, that day we did part
And this is the truth, and the truth I de-clare,
Oh ? here's your love token the gold ring I wear