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The Justice Dept 8p PT/11p ET on Netroots Radio Presents: A Sinéad O'Connor Tribute [1]

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Date: 2023-07-30

As I went out walking one morning in June

To view the fair fields and the valleys in bloom

I spied a pretty fair maid she appeared like a queen

With her costly fine robes and her mantle so green

Says I, "My pretty fair maid, won't you come with me

We'll both join in wedlock, and married we'll be

I will dress you in fine linen, you'll appear like a queen

With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green."

Says she, "Now, my young man, you must be excused

For I'll wed with no man, so you must be refused

To the green woods I will wander and shun all men's view

For the boy I loved dearly lies in famed Waterloo."

"Well, if you're not married, say your lover's name

I fought in that battle, so I might know the same."

"Draw near to my garment and there you will see

His name is embroidered on my mantle so green."

In the ribbon of her mantle there I did behold

His name and his surname in letters of gold

Young William O'Riley appeared in my view

He was my chief comrade back in famed Waterloo

And as he lay dying I heard his last cry

'If you were here, lovely Nancy, I'd be willing to die;'

And as I told her this story, in anguish she flew

And the more that I told her, the paler she grew

So I smiled on my Nancy, 'twas I broke your heart

In your father's garden, that day we did part

And this is a truth, and the truth I declare

Well, here is your love token, the gold ring I wear

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