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Young Buchan Obit: Ray Croll R.I.P. (Oct 2013) (16) RE: Obit: Ray Croll R.I.P. 22 Oct 13


Maeve - as far as I know he never recorded it, though I heard him sing it many times (I noted it because, like you, I also sing it). He sang pretty much the standard version and tune, but used to drop the final verses viz:
(Rosie found an officer. He promised her a ring.
But regiments keep moving on and he left her in the spring.

"To Bedlam I shall go" she cried, "In Bedlam I shall lie.
In Bedlam I shall pass my life, and in Bedlam I shall die.

If 'twere to do that's done," she said, "if 'twere to do that's done,
I would adore Hay Marshall's face, Lord Elgin's I would shun.

So all you young maids listen here, and hearken unto me.
Never leave your wedded lord for another that you see.")


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