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i feu vow’d if-e'er you marry’d yo*r char u* I fhoald
enjoy, _
’our fatker did me b.intGb, I am th* prcmtisc boy ■
When<heb?hetdhis featorrs (lie fl'wintohisari'ns,
rkh kiffes out of nv srvire (hs did enjoy his charms.
Then thro’ OpM’s garden the road to church they
found,
; ecverlaflingpltafujrein M.y men’s chain» aei'chounci,
THE IRISH BOY,
yOU lades of England and Ire land alio,
C«mc liften a while and foon you (hall knov,
low I’have been- wounded, hy love ( am (lain,
□ the (h ong waili of Bedlam I’m forc’d to remain.
■ |j When firft I was courted by my loving Irifh boy.
tile caHed me his jewel and bis only joy,
n fair Dub,in city that place of great lame,
Where my bonny itiih boy firli a courtto me
. j came.
JS He talked of lave and he promif&d to wed
liSut in a fho't time after he hole my nrajdau head,
'O maidens don’t blame me I could not forbear,
' ror the loviog of my bonny snfh boy I do declare.
Asdo.vn tn the valleys chanctf l to walk,
■ )hl there I heard ny bonny I-:(h boy for tn yalk,
Where the pretry birds were itngjRg and' the la; k?
foaiing high,
Und my Iriih boy was Guging wdh bi» voice ®e!o-
dioufly.
i His teeth as white as itbry.bis hair a kirely brown
And o’tr his portly (ho'uldirsio eardefsly hangdown,
i >0 maidens believe me, my heart is lik^ to break,
-dut never trult a fdlfe heiiited man again ioi mv
lake.'
( 7 )
i feu vow’d if-e'er you marry’d yo*r char u* I fhoald
enjoy, _
’our fatker did me b.intGb, I am th* prcmtisc boy ■
When<heb?hetdhis featorrs (lie fl'wintohisari'ns,
rkh kiffes out of nv srvire (hs did enjoy his charms.
Then thro’ OpM’s garden the road to church they
found,
; ecverlaflingpltafujrein M.y men’s chain» aei'chounci,
THE IRISH BOY,
yOU lades of England and Ire land alio,
C«mc liften a while and foon you (hall knov,
low I’have been- wounded, hy love ( am (lain,
□ the (h ong waili of Bedlam I’m forc’d to remain.
■ |j When firft I was courted by my loving Irifh boy.
tile caHed me his jewel and bis only joy,
n fair Dub,in city that place of great lame,
Where my bonny itiih boy firli a courtto me
. j came.
JS He talked of lave and he promif&d to wed
liSut in a fho't time after he hole my nrajdau head,
'O maidens don’t blame me I could not forbear,
' ror the loviog of my bonny snfh boy I do declare.
Asdo.vn tn the valleys chanctf l to walk,
■ )hl there I heard ny bonny I-:(h boy for tn yalk,
Where the pretry birds were itngjRg and' the la; k?
foaiing high,
Und my Iriih boy was Guging wdh bi» voice ®e!o-
dioufly.
i His teeth as white as itbry.bis hair a kirely brown
And o’tr his portly (ho'uldirsio eardefsly hangdown,
i >0 maidens believe me, my heart is lik^ to break,
-dut never trult a fdlfe heiiited man again ioi mv
lake.'
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Murders > Five excellent new songs > (7) |
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| Description | Monro's tragedy, The lucky escape, The lady's love with an apprentic [sic] boy, The Irish boy, One bottle more. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2808(7) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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