Her Mantle So Green

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[Verse 1]
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As I went out walking, one morning in June
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To view the fair fields, and the valleys in bloom;
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I spied a pretty fair maid, she a-ppeared like a queen,
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With - her costly fine robes and her mantle so green

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[Verse 2]
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Says I, my pretty fair maid, won’t you come with me,
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We'll both join in wedlock, and married we'll be;
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I will dress you in fine linen, you'll a-ppear like a queen,
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With - your costly fine robes and your mantle so green.

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[Verse 3]
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Says she, now my young man, you must be ex-cused,
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For I'll wed with no man, so you must be re-fused;
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To the green woods I will wander and shun all men's view
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For - the boy I love dearly lies in famed Water-loo.

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[Verse 4]
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Well, if you're not married, say your lover's name
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I fought in that battle, so I might know the same.
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Draw near to my garment, and there you will see
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His – name is em-broidered on my mantle so green.

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[Verse 5]
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In the ribbon of her mantle, there I did be-hold,
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His name and his surname, in letters of gold
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Young William O'Riley, a-ppeared in my view
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He – was my chief comrade back in famed Water-loo

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[Verse 6]
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And as he lay dying, I heard his last cry
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’If you were here lovely Nancy I'd be willing to die’
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And as I told her this story, in anguish she flew,
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And - the more that I told her, the paler she grew

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[Verse 7]
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So I smiled on my Nancy, 'twas I broke your heart,
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In your fathers garden, that day we did part
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And this is the truth, and the truth I de-clare,
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Oh – here's your love token the gold ring I wear