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THE LOWLAND LOVERS. Come all you Lowland lovers, and listen to my song, A sad and dismal story, I will not keep you long ; Concerning a poor unhappy girl, distracted in her mind, All for a brisk young sailor, no comfort can she find. The lad that I love dearly, he is proper, tall, and clean, He is the fairest sailor boy that ever I have seen, He is proper, and tall, he is genteel, has no deluding tongue, His modesty enchanted me, my dear when I was young, I kept my darlings company for tetter than three years, He vowed that I would be his own, I own I loved him dear, But now he has gone and left me, I cannot tell you where, He is serving her Majesty on board of a man-of-war. But a bunch of green laurel for my love I will prepare, A bunch of green laurel all for his sake I'll wear, For green it is for sorrow, and red it is for joy, And for evermore I will adore my darling sailor boy. When I go to church on Sunday, my eyes with tears do blind, When I think on my own sweetheart so loyal and so kind, It's oftentimes I think on him, he never thinks on me, And It's O that I had one hour of my loves company. It is not to hills or mountains that I do make my moan, It is unto the bonny boy my mind is fixed upon, It is ofentimes I think on him, he never thinks on me, And It's O that I had one half hour of my loves company. Had I Lords, Dukes, or Earls, my husband for to be, Or if I had all the riches that my two eyes could see, I would never wed another man, I'll tell you the reason why. All for his sake that's far at sea. a maid I'll live and die, 34
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Probable period of publication:
1830-1850 shelfmark: L.C.Fol.178.A.2(208)
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