This is similar to the second version in the database, but there are significant differences and some added verses, so I thought it would be worthwhile to post it. I have some trouble with the tunes in the Sam Henry book, but it's at least a pretty good approximation.
-Joe Offer-

THE LADY LEROY
Traditional (from "Sam Henry's Songs of the People")

Other titles: "Brave Annie and Her Young Sailor Boy," "The Sailor Boy,"
Sally and Her Lover"

As I went walking one evening in June
To view the green fields and meadows in bloom,
I spied a lovely couple on Erin's green shore,
They were viewing the ocean where the loud billows roar.

'O Sally, lovely Sally, you're the maid I adore,
To be parted from you, it would grieve my heart sore,
But your parents are rich, love, and angry with me,
And for me to enforce you my ruin might be.

Sally dressed herself up in a suit of men's clothes
And down to her father she instantly goes,
She purchased a vessel, paying down his demand,
But little he knew 'twas from his daughter's hand.

She wrote her love a letter and this she did say,
'Be quick and make ready, there's no time to delay.'
They hoisted their topsails with signs of great joy,
And over the ocean sailed the Lady Leroy

When Sally's old father came this for to know,
Like a man in distraction to a captain he did go,
He bid him go find them and her lover destroy,
For he ne'er will enjoy the fair Lady Leroy

Wit bold indiscretion this sea captain did go,
And quickly made ready like some daring foe,
He spied a large vessel with her colours let fly,
And he hailed her and found her, the Lady Leroy.

'Return, you young couple, to Erin's green shore,
Or a broadside of grapeshot on your lives I will pour.'
But Sally's true lover he made this reply,
'I'll never surrender, I'll conquer or die.'

Then broadside to broadside they on other did pour,
Far louder than thunder their cannons did roar,
but Sally's true lover gained the victorie,
And he sunk the proud captain in the dark raging sea.

We landed in Boston, that city of fame,
With a bold chief commander, I'll not mention his name;
Drink a health to lovely Sally and the Lady Leroy,
She's the source of all comfort and my only joy.

Write home to your father and this let him know:
That I would not be conquered by friend or by foe,
We wish him good fortune, long life to enjoy,
But he lost all his prospects on the Lady Leroy

DT #440
Laws N5
@Irish @sailor @love @family @transvestite @trick @battle

I had some trouble fitting the lyrics to fit the tune. Here's my best guess:

As I went a-wal-king one eve-ning _ in June
To view the _ green fields and the mea-dows in bloom
I spied _ a love-ly cou-ple on E-rin's green shore
They were view-ing the o-cean where the loud bil-lows roar.

MIDI file: LADYLE~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: The Lady Leroy
Text: By Traditional
Copyright: from Sam Henry's Songs of the People
Key: A
TimeSig: 3/4 24 8
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

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