Mantle Of Green

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As I was a-walking one morning in June
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To view the gay fields and the meadows in bloom
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I spied a young female, she appeared like some queen
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With her costly fine robes round her mantle of green

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He said, “Lovely fair maid, if you will agree
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Then we'll join in wedlock and married we'll be
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I'll dress you in riches, you'll appear like some queen
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With your costly fine robes round your mantle of green”

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She quickly made answer, “May you be excused
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For I'll wed with no man, you must be refused
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To the greenwoods I'll wander and shun all men too
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For the lad that I love fell at famed Waterloo”

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“If you will not marry, tell me your love's name
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For I've been a soldier, and might know the same”
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“Draw near to my garment and soon you will see
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His name I've embroidered on my mantle of green”

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Enrising of her mantle, it's there I behold
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His name and his surname in letters of gold
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Young William O'Reilly it appeared to my view
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I cried, “He was my comrade at famed Waterloo”

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Now when that she heard it, the paler she grew
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She fell in his arms with her heart full of woe
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“Your heart I have wounded, the truth I declare
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Here is your love's token, the gold ring I do wear”

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“In your father's garden, beneath a green tree
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We pledged our true love and long we'd agree”
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This couple got married, I've heard people say
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She wore a mantle of green on their wedding day