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作曲 : i am a youth that's inclined to ramble |
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i am a youth that's inclined to ramble, |
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to some foreign country i mean to steer, |
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i am loath to part from my friends and comrades, |
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and my dear sweet heart, whom i loved dear. |
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but there's one of those i do most admire, |
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one her i'll think when i am far away, |
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for since fates decreed i am resolved to part her, |
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and try my fortune in america |
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so farewell darling i must leave you, |
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i place great dependence on your constancy, |
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that no other young man may gain your favor, |
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or change your mind when i am over the sea. |
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for although the seas do separate us, |
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and in between us they do rise and fall, |
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if fortune favors me you'll find your jamie, |
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returning homeward from america. |
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oh jamie dear do you remember, |
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when i sat with you for many the hour, |
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and my young fancy away was carried, |
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and the bees hummed around on each opening flower, |
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but when you're crossing the western ocean. |
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the maid that loved you, you'll never mind aver, |
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and you'll scarce ever think upon the maids of erin, |
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for you'll find strange sweethearts in america. |
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oh mary dear, i don't dissemble, |
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for to all other fair maids i'll prove untrue, |
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and if you think that these are false promise, |
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i'll leave these vows as a pledge to you. |
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that what i have may prove unsuccessful, |
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and fortune prove to me a slippery ball, |
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that a favoring gale it may nerve blow on me, |
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if forsake you in america. |
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and to conclude and to end these verses, |
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may god protect this young female fair, |
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and keep her from every wild embarrassment, |
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and of my darling take the greatest care. |
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for she's slow to anger and of kind disposition, |
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and her cheeks like roses in june do blow, |
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in my nightly slumbers when ever i think on her, |
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i could court her vision in america. |
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