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THEO' THE WOOD, LADDIE.*
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to thy . mar - row Wha's liv -
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o' them pleas-es my eye or my
ing in lan-gour till that hap - py
1. burn, Or thro' the wood, lad - die,
2. ear. When thro' the wood, lad - die,
3. day. When thro' the wood, lad - die,
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* This air occurs in Thomson's Orpheus CalecUmitis, 1725, to verses bv Eamsar, beginning, " As oarlr I walk'd on the first of sweet May";
Mctribbon also included it in vol. ii. of liis Collection <f.%nts Tunes, 1(46. The'song given above is publishe<i in the Tm-Tahle Miscettamj, 1724.
Dr. Blacklock supplied Johnson with what he considered to be the original verses to " Tliro' the wood, Laddie ; " they are given in vol. ii. of
the Mussum, Song 164.