| Oh the first young man that came courting me
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| I’ll make no doubt that he loved me
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| With his false heart and his lathering tongue
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| He was the first to entice me when I was young
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| Oh the first six months his love proved kind
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| Until at last he changed his mind
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| Saying «My parents call and I must obey
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| So it’s good-bye love, I am going away»
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| I will hold you fast, I’ll not let you go
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| For you are mine by rights, you know
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| For feel those vows that you made to me
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| As the bright sun rose on Green Valley
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| It was on this book love you made me swear
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| And those few lines you soon shall har
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| That no other marriage was I ne’r to make
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| With no other man all for your sake
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| Now must I go bound while he goes free
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| Must I love a man that don’t love me
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| And must I play the childish part
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| And love a man who has broke my heart
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| I will sing one verse and I’ll sing no more
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| Since the boy has gone that I adore
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| I will change my mind like the wavering wind
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| And depend no more on false mankind |