Her Mantle So Green - Sinéad O'Connor

[00:39.37]As I went out walking' one morning in June
[00:47.56]To view the fair fields' and the valleys in bloom;
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[00:55.87]I spied a pretty fair maid' she appeared like a queen'
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[01:04.43]With her costly fine robes and her mantle so green
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[01:16.43]Says I' my pretty fair maid' wont you come with me'
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[01:25.45]We’ll both join in wedlock' and married we’ll be;
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[01:34.18]I will dress you in fine linen' you’ll appear like a queen'
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[01:42.32]With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green.
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[01:54.01]Says she' now my young man' you must be excused'
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[02:02.82]For I’ll wed no man' so you must be refused;
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[02:11.57]To the green woods I will wander and shun all men’s view
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[02:19.44]For the boy I love dearly lies in farmed waterloo.
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[02:58.73]Well if you’re not married' say your lover’s name
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[03:06.98]I fought in that battle' so I might know the same.
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[03:16.04]Draw near to my garment' and there you will see
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[03:23.61]His name is embroidered on my mantle so green.
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[03:35.87]In the ribbon of her mantle' there I did behold'
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[03:44.82]His name and his surname' in letters of gold
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[03:53.22]Young William O’Riley' appeared in my view
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[04:01.08]He was my chief comrade back in farmed waterloo
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[04:14.03]And as he lay dying' I heard his last cry
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[04:22.41]“If you were here lovely Nancy I’d be willing to die”
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[04:30.85]And as I told her this story' in anguish she flew'
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[04:39.22]And the more that I told her' the paler she grew
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[04:50.96]So I smiled on my Nancy' ‘twas I broke your heart'
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[05:00.21]In your fathers garden' that day we did part
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[05:08.34]And this is the truth' and the truth I declare'
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[05:16.62]Oh here’s your love token the gold ring I wear.