Broadside ballad entitled 'On the banks of Allan Water'

Transcription

ON THE BANKS         

OF                                                      

ALLAN WATER

This Popular Song can always be had at the                                          
Poet's Boz, 224 overgate Dundee

On the banks of Allan Water
When the sweet spring-time did fall
Was the miller's lovely daughter,
Fairest of them all,
For his brlde a soldier sought her,
And a winning tongue had he !
On the banks of Allan Water,
None so gay as she.

On the blinks of Allan Water,
When brown Autumn spreads its store
There I saw the miller's daughter,
But she smiled no more.
For the summer, grief had brought her
And her soldier, false was he ;
On the banks of Allan Water,
None so sad as she ,

On the banks of Allan Water,
When the winter snow fell fast,
There I saw the miller's daughter ;
Chilling blew the blast,
But the millers lovely daughter,
Both from care and cold was free ;
On the banks of Allan Water,
There a corpse lay she,

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