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- TWO SONGS REWRITTEN FOR THE TUNE'S SAKE
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- I
- My Paistin Finn is my sole desire,
- And I am shrunken to skin and bone,
- For all my heart has had for its hire
- Is what I can whistle alone and alone.
- i{Oro, oro.!}
- i{Tomorrow night I will break down the door.}
- What is the good of a man and he
- Alone and alone, with a speckled shin?
- I would that I drank with my love on my knee
- Between two barrels at the inn.
- Oro, oro.!>1
- i{To-morrow night I will break down the door.}
- Alone and alone nine nights I lay
- Between two bushes under the rain;
- I thought to have whistled her down that
- I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.
- i{Oro, oro!}
- i{To-morrow night I will break down the door.}
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- II
- I would that I were an old beggar
- Rolling a blind pearl eye,
- For he cannot see my lady
- Go gallivanting by;
- A dreary, dreepy beggar
- Without a friend on the earth
- But a thieving rascally cur --
- O a beggar blind from his birth;
- Or anything else but a rhymer
- Without a thing in his head
- But rhymes for a beautiful lady,
- He rhyming alone in his bed.
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