Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, VII, 387, 1877:
communicated by B. Montgomerie Ranking, as "heard sung years
ago by a West Country fisherman."
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'OH daughter, oh daughter,' her father he said,
'What makes you look so pale?
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Or are you in love with any man?' |
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'But if it be one of my own sailor lads,
High hanged he shall be.' |
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Johnnie Barbour he cam doun the stair,
His shirt was of the silk;
His two bonnie black een were rolling in his head,
And his skin was as white as milk. |
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'Oh are you ready to marry my daughter,
And take her by the hand,
And to eat and drink with me at the table,
And be heir of all my land?' |
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'Oh it's I am ready to marry your daughter,
And take her by the hand,
And to eat and drink with her at the table,
And to fight for all your land.' |
