
Date of issue: 31.12.1998
Record label: Universal-Island
Song language: English
Bonny Bunch Of Roses |
By the margin of the ocean, one summer day in the month of June |
The feather’d warbling songsters their voices sweetly sang in tune |
It was there I met a female all overcome with grief and woe |
Conversing with Napoleon on the Bonny Bunch of Roses, O |
Then up spoke young Napoleon and he took her by the hand |
Saying «Mother dear, be patient, and I soon will take command; |
And I’ll raise a mighty army, and through tremendous dangers go |
And I’ll conquer all the universe, and I’ll have the Bonny Bunch of Roses, O.» |
«When first you saw great Bonaparte, you fell upon your bended knee |
And asked your father’s life of him he granted it most manfully |
It was then he took an army, and o’er the frozen Alps did go |
Saying, «I'll conquer Moscow and come back for the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O.» |
Oh he took a mighty army, princes and dukes were in his train |
He was so well provided for, enough to sweep the world for gain; |
But when he came to Moscow, all overpowered by sleet and snow |
And Moscow was a-blazing, he lost the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O |
Now son, don’t speak so venturesome, for England has the heart of oak |
And England, Ireland, Scotland, their unity will ne’er be broke; |
So remember your father, in Saint Helena he lies low |
And you will follow after, beware of the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O |
Adieu, adieu forever, now I bow my youthful head |
Had I lived I might have been clever, but now I lie on my dying bed |
And as the waters do flow and the weeping willows over me grow |
The name of brave Napoleon will enshrine the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O |
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