Rambling boy with the answer (1)/Answer to the Rambling Boy

ANSWER. TO THE RAMBLING BOY.

A' Squire's daughter near Auchnacloy,
fell in love with a servant boy,
And when her father came to hear,
He separated her from her dear.

Now all for to encrease her pain.
He lent her true love to the main
To aft the part of a gallant tar.
On board the terrible man of war.

He had not been two months at sea,
Before he fell in a bloody fray;
It was tins young man's lot to fall.
And lose his life by a cannon-ball.

The very night that he was slain,
His Ghost unto her father came,
With dismal groans at the bedside stood,
Neck and bread all besmear'd with blood.

Her father seeing this strange sight,
It very sore did him affright.
It was so dark, and look’d so grim,
It made him tremble in every limb

That day three weeks his love did hear,
What happ'ned to her dearest dear;
That very night on a beam of oak,
She hung herself in her bed-rope.

Her father hearing of the sad news.
It greatly then did him confuse;
He wrung his hands and tore his hair.
Crying, Now, alas! I'm in dispair