ALL ROUND MY HAT

All round my hat I vears a green villow,
All round my hat for a twelvemonth and a day,
If any one should ax't the reason vy I vears it,
Tell them that my true love is far, far away.

'Twas a going of my rounds in the streets I first did meet her.
Oh! I thought she vas a hangel just come down from the sky.
(Spoken.) She'd a nice wegitable countenance; Turnup
nose, Redish cheeks, and Carrotty hair.
And I never heard a voice more louder and more sweeter,
Vhen she cried buy my Primroses, my Primroses come buy!

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Oh! my love she vos fair, and my love she vos kind, too,
And cruel vos the cruel judge vot had my love to try!
For thieving vos a thing she never vos inclined to,
But he sent my love across the seas far away!

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For seven long years my love and I am parted,
For seven long years my love is bound to stay.
Bad luck to that chap vot'd ever be false hearted,
Oh! I'll love my love for ever, though she's far, far away!

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There is some young men is so preciously deceitful,
A coaxing of the young gals they vish to lead astray;
As soon as they deceive 'em so cruelly they leave 'em,
And they never sigh nor sorrows vhen they're far, far away!

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Oh! I bought my love a ring on the very day she started,
Vich I gove her as a token all to remember me;
And vhen she does come back, oh! ve'll never more be parted,
But ve'll marry and be happy, oh, for ever and a day.

All round my hat, &c.

From: Andrews', Printer, 38 Chatham St., N. Y., Dealer in Songs, Games, Toy Books, Motto Verses, &c., Wholesale and Retail. American Memory Collection