Broadside ballad entitled 'The Highland Soldier'

Transcription

THE HIGHLAND SOLDIER.

This Popular Song can always be had at the Poet's Box,
224 Overgate, Dundee.

Owre yon hills not far awa,

There dwells a lovely maiden,
As she strolled out, ae simmer's night
For to view the soldiers paradin'.

CHORUS?

For they walk so neat and they dress so gay,
The drums they do beat and the pipes they do play,
Which caused lovely Mary for to sigh and say

I will follow my Highland soldier.
Oh, Mary, dear, my pay's but small,

And on yon battlefield I might fall ;

And you sae far from your father's hame

Tae be led by a Highland soldier.

CHORUS.
Oh, I've got fifty pounds in store.

And I've got the, heart worth ten times more,
And I'll give it to the lad that, I adore ;
I would die for my Highland soldier.
CHORUS.

O, Mary, dear, as you've been so true.

And you've been tender-hearted.
Here is my hand and married we will be,

And never more be parted.
CHORUS.

A LIST OF POPULAR SONGS.
Can   always he   had at   the Poet's   Box.

The   Midnight. Express.
The    Wanderer.

Fine Big Woman.

Down Among the Coals.

Sweet Seventeen.

The   Auld House.

Mother's Parting gift.

Comrades

Death of Nelson.

Does thy Heart beat true to me?

Don't put my Father's Picture

up for sale.
The Iron Horse.
The Little Green Leaf in the

Bible.

Down by the River I strayed,
The Night Maloney Landed in
New York.

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