And another from Virginia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cysjx4iaSeU Ho Lilly Ho / Jack Went A-Sailing / Jack Munro / Jackie's Gone A-sailing / The Wars of Germany / Jackie Frazer / Jack Monroe (Roud No. 268) - Sung by Mrs. Victoria Morris of Mount Fair, Albermarle County, Virginia. Recorded by Maud Karpeles on September, 1950. Jack he went a-sailing With a weak and troubled mind To leave his native country And his darling girl behind Chorus: Row my lily o My darling you don't know (Oh) row my lily o My darling you don't know She dressed herself in a man's array And apparel she put on And to the field of battle She marched the men along ' Your cheeks are red and rosy Your fingers neat and small Your waist too slim and slender To face the cannon ball' 'My cheeks are red and rosy My fingers neat and small But I would not change my countenance To see ten thousand fall' The battle being ended She rode the circle round And through the dead and dying Her darling boy she found She picked him up all in her arms She carried him down to town She sent for a London doctor To heal his bleeding wound This couple they got married So well they did agree This couple they got married And why not you and me?
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