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3. For seven long years I served my king; On the eighth returned again, Enquiring for the girl I left behind Who ofttimes told me her heart was mine.
4. As I was going up the street
I found a letter beneath my feet.
It was wrote without a blot
Saying, "Sailed on sea, but not forgot."
5. They told me she had wed for riches' sake, "Now, young man, seek another maid." |
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6. "It's curse all gold and silver too
And curse all girls that won't prove true;
On sea or land, I will sail no more;
I will make my way where the bullets roar."
7. "Stop, a stop, a stop," said she. "Don't make your way to the raging sea; Don't make your way where the bullets fly; For there are girls more beautiful than I."
69 BROKEN VOWS Cf. Fuson, p. 140.
No local title. Copied from a manuscript collection of songs in the possession of Miss Mary King, Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee, August, 1931.
1. You told me, dear, that you loved me; You and I would never part, Till at last all charms were broken And I had a sad broken heart.
Chorus Would have been better for us both If we had never in this wide wicked world have met. Though the pleasures we have both seen together — Oh, I'm trying in vain to forget. |
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