Tonart: Eb major
Verse 1
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When first to this
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country as a stranger I came
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I placed my affection
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on a comely young dame
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She being warm and tender, her
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waist small and slender
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Kind Nature had formed
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her for my overthrow
Verse 2
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On the banks of Bann water,
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where I first beheld her
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She appeared like fair Jun
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o or a Grecian queen
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Her eyes shone like diamonds,
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her hair softly twining
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Her cheeks were like roses,
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or like blood drops in snow
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Verse 3
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It was her cruel parents that first
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caused our variance
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All because I was poor and
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of a low degree
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But I'll do my endeavour
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to earn my love's favour
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Although she is come
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of a rich family
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Verse 4
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My name is Delaney,
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its a name that won't shame me
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And if I had saved money I'd
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have plenty in store
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But drinking and courting,
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night rambling and sporting
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Were the cause of my ruin
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and absence from home
Verse 5
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Had I all the money
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that's in the West Indies
Or had I the gold of the Afric
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I would spend it on pearls,
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and on you my brown girl
For there's no other love
in this world I adore
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And now that I've found
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her I'm contented forever
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I'll put rings on her fingers
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and gold in her hair
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And we'll live on the banks of
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the lovely Bann river
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And in all sorts of splendour
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I will style her my dear.
Outro 1
One of several songs with this name.
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