[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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One day as I was walking all o'er yon fields of moss
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I had no thoughts of enlisting till some soldiers did me cross
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They kindly did invite me to a flowing ball and down,
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They advanced, they advanced me some money, a shilling from the crown.
[Verse 2]
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My true love he is listed and he wears a white cockade
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He is a handsome young man, likewise a roving blade
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He is a handsome young man, he's gone to serve the King
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Oh my very, oh my very heart is aching all for the love of him
[Verse 3]
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My true love he is handsome and comely for to see
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And by a sad misfortune a soldier now is he
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I wish the man that's listed him might prosper night nor day
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And I wish that, and I wish that, the Hollanders might sink him in the sea
[Verse 4]
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Then he took out his hankerchief to wipe my flowing eye
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Leave off your lamentations likewise your mournful sighs
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Leave off your grief and sorrow until I march o'er yon plain
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We'll be married, we'll be married in the springtime when I return again
[Verse 5]
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My true love he is handsome and it's all for him I'll rove
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I'll write his name on every tree that grows in yonder grove
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My poor heart it does hallow, how my poor heart it does cry
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To remind me, to remind me of my ploughboy, until the day I die