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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 bunks 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 ; Chillimg blew the blast. But the miller's lovely daughter, Both from care and cold was free ; On the banks of Allan Water, There a corpse lay she,
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Probable period of publication:
1880-1900 shelfmark: RB.m.143(211)
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