The Girl I Left Behind Me / Songs and Lyrics

Version 1

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T:An Spailpin Fanach / The Bride In Camp / The Wealthy Squire
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w:I'm lone-some since I crossed the hill, And o'er the moor - and - val-ley.
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w:Such - grievous thoughts my heart do fill Since part-ing with my Sal-ly
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w:I seek no more the bright and gay, For each but does - re-mind me
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w:How swift the hours did pass away With the girl I've left be-hind me
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W:I'm lonesome since I crossed the hill, And o'er the moor and valley.
W:Such griev-ous thoughts my heart do fill Since parting with my Sally.
W:I seek no more the bright and gay, For each but does remind me
W:How swift the hours did pass away With the girl I've left behind me.
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W:Oh, ne'er shall I forget the night; The stars were bright above me, 
W:And gently lent their silvery light, When first she vowed to love me. 
W:But now I 'm bound for Brighton Camp. Kind heaven, then, to guide me, 
W:And send me safely back again To the girl I've left behind me. 
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W:3 
W:Her golden hair, in ringlets fair,  Her eyes like diamonds shining, 
W:Her slender waist with carriage chaste, May leave the swans repining. 
W:Ye gods above, oh hear my prayer To my beauteous fair to bind me  
W:And send me safely back again To the girl I've left behind me. 
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W:The bee shall honey taste no more, The dove become a ranger, 
W:The falling waters cease to roar,  'Ere I shall seek to change her. 
W:The vows we registered above, Shall ever cheer and bind me, 
W:In constancy to her I love, The girl I left behind me.

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