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Posted By: GUEST,Julia L
29-Mar-20 - 09:30 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lay the Lily Low / Jack Munro
Subject: RE: Origins: Lay the Lily Low / Jack Munro
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?