Summary

The Black-bird, a selection of celebrated songs (1818)

Tyrone?
For my character
You need never mind it;
I never was marry’d, nor promis'd to none.
Then she swore by her conscience
She would run all chances,
And travel with me to the County Tyrone.
Then early next morning,
While the sun was adorning,
We travd'd from Killwight by the three mile stone;
The guard they pursu’d us,
But never could view us,
I wish’d frotn my heart I had my love in Tyrone.
As we were a-walking,
And lovingly talking,
We met an old man, was walking alone
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The Black-bird, a selection of celebrated songs (1818)

The sire of the gods, from his chrystaline throne,
Beheld the disconsolate dame,
And, mov’d with her tears, sent Mercury down,
And these were the tidings that came:
Britannia, forbear, not a sigh nor a tear
For thy Wolfe, so deservedly lov’d;
Thy grief shall be chang'd into tumults of joy,
For Wolfe is not dead, but remov’d.
The sons of the earth, the proud giants of old,
Have fled from their darksome abodes;
And such is the news, that in heaven is told,
They are marching to war with the gods!
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The Black-bird, a selection of celebrated songs (1818)

May the shame fa’ the gear, and the blathrie o’t.
Jenny was the lassie that mucked the byre,
But now she is clad in her silken attire,
And Jockie says he lo’es her, and me he has forgot;
May the shame fa’the gear,and theblathrie o’t.
But all this shall never daunt on me,
Sae lang as I keep my fancy free:
For the lad that’s sae inconstant, he's not worth a groat;
May the shame fa’the gear, and the blathrie o't.
Allan-Water.
What numbers shall the muse repent,
what verse be found to praise my Annie?
On her ten thousand graces wait
each swain admires, and owns she’s bonny.
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