Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 123
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“Here I am a stranger last night...”
(continued from previous page)Your waving hair being uncompared
Like shining links of gold
You'd really think her fair body
III
Was shaped in some fine mould
Mary dear, I love you, and right well that you know
It was your cruel parents that proved my overthrow.
It was your cruel parents swore vengence against me
that made me plant my garden in a foreign country.
IIII
Oh Johnnie you're a rover,
on you I can't depend
For if I agree to marry thee
You would not be my friend
I'll stay with my dear parents
I'll take them for my guide(continues on next page)