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Can you to battle go

(35) Can you to battle go

Can you to Battle go.

Printed and sold by J. Jennings, 15, Water Lane,
Fleet Street.

COULD you to battle march away.
And leave me here complaining?
I'm fare't would break my heart to flay,
When you are gone campaigning:
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon
Could never quite her rover;
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon
Would go with you all the world over

Cheer, cheer, my love, you shall not grieve
A soldier ture you'll find me;
I shall not have the heart to leave
My little girl behind me;
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon,
Should never quite her rover;
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon,
Shall go with me all the would over

And can you to the battle go,
To woman's fears a strangers,
No fear my breaft will ever know.
But wehn my love's in danger,
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon,
Fears only for her rover;
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon,
Will go with you all the world over.

Then let the world jog as it will,
Lwt hollow friends forfake us,
We both shall be us happy still,
As war and love make us,
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon,
Shall never quite her rover;
Ah! non, non, non,
Pauvre Madelon,
Shall go with me all the world over.

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