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Thread #37571 Message #3929843
Posted By: The Sandman
08-Jun-18 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: All Around My Hat
Subject: RE: Origins: All Around My Hat
The vesion i learned orally from my father, was this, and bears no resemblance[lyricwise] to april morning My love she was fair and my love she was kind too And many were the happy hours, between my love and me I never could refuse her, whatever she'd a mind to And now she's far away, far o'er the stormy sea.
All 'round my hat I will wear a [or: the] green willow All 'round my hat for a twelve month and a day If anybody asks me the reason why I wear it It's all because my true love is far, far away.
Will my love be true and will my love be faithful? Or will she find another swain to court her where she's gone? The men will all run after her, so pretty and so graceful And leave me here lamenting, lamenting all alone.
All 'round my hat I will wear a green willow All 'round my hat for a twelve month and a day If anybody asks me the reason why I wear it It's all because my true love is far, far away.
My love she was fair, and my love she was kind And cruel the judge and jury that sentenced her away For thieving was a thing that she never was inclined to They sent my love across the sea ten thousand miles away.