Queen Mary's lamentation (1823)/The orange and blue
The ORANGE And BLUE.
IT was on Monday morning,
as I was going to Mass,
I had no mind of listing,
until they did me press:
Bad company enticed me to
partake of a full flowing bowl,
And the advance money they gave me,
was a guinea and a crown.
O! my dearest dear he is listed,
and ta'en a white cockade,
O! he is a clever fellow,
besides he's a roving blade.
Sure he is a clever fellow,
and is gone to serve the King;
My very heart is a bleeding
all for the love of him.
It was on a monday morning,
just by the break of day,
The Captain commanded the Leutenant,
to march those men away.
He march'd them all in rank and file,
all on the Irish shore,
Fare you well sweet Molly dear,
if I never see you more.
He pull'd out his pocket-kerchief,
and wip'd her christal eyes,
He says, My dearest jewel,
I'm sorry for your sighs.
But if ever come back again,
and all goodness spares my life,
There is not a woman breathing,
but you I'll make my wife.
My dear, I will convoy you,
as far as sweet Straban,
My dearest, I'll convoy you
as far as e'er I can,
My hand I never will give
to any man but you,
And now you're going to leave me
for the Orange and the Blue.
He's gone, he's gone, and left me,
behind him for to rove,
His name I'll carve on every tree,
through Belanamurry grove,
Please God that he return again
and his consort make me,
I'll prove a faithful loving wife,
until the day I die.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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