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1. Fare - well ! — but when - ev - er you
2. And still, on that even-ing, when
3. Let Fate do her worst; there are
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1. wel - come the hour Which a - wak - erjs the night - song of mirth in your bow'r, Then
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3. re - lies of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she can - not de -stroy, Which
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1. think of the friend who once
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gloom - y or bright, My soul,
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in the night -time of sor - row and care, And bring back the fea - tures that
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The earliest printed version of this air is prohably that entitled "To Eodney we will go," in Aird's Selection of Scotch',.
English, Irish, and Foreign Airs, vol. vth. 1788, p. 160 (see Appendix No. V.). As " Moll Boone," the air, with Moore's " Farewell I
but whenever you welcome the hour," was published in the fifth number of the Melodies, Dee. 1813.