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| This traditional English tune tells the story of a street hawker mourning the loss of his girl-friend who has been transported to Australia for theft.
The tune appears as The Budgeon is a Fine Trade in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859). (Budge was cockney slang for thief.) According to another source the tune was popular in the 1830s. |
My love she was fair and my love she was kind And cruel the judge and jury that sentenced her away For thieving was a thing that she never was inclined to They sent my love across the sea ten thousand miles away Chorus All round my hat I will wear the greenie willow All round my hat for a year and a day And if anyone should question me the reason for my wearing it I tell them my own true love is ten thousand miles away I bought my love a golden ring to wear upon her finger A token of our own true love and to remember me And when she returns again we'll never more be parted We'll marry and be happy for ever and a day Chorus All round my hat I will wear the greenie willow All round my hat for a year and a day And if anyone should question me the reason for my wearing it I tell them my own true love is ten thousand miles away Seven, seven long years my love and I are parted Seven, seven long years my love is bound to stay Seven long years I'll love my love and never be false-hearted And never sigh or sorrow while she's far, far away Chorus All round my hat I will wear the greenie willow All round my hat for a year and a day And if anyone should question me the reason for my wearing it I tell them my own true love is ten thousand miles away Some young men there are who are preciously deceitful A-coaxing of the fair young maids they mean to lead astray As soon as they deceive then, so cruelly they leave them I'll love my love for ever though she's far, far away Chorus All round my hat I will wear the greenie willow All round my hat for a year and a day And if anyone should question me the reason for my wearing it I tell them my own true love is ten thousand miles away |
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Folksongs of Britain and Ireland See Bibliography for full information. |
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