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Rosleen

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ROSLEEN

"She's the darlin' of the parish, she's the pride of

Inniskillen;

'Twould make your heart lep up to see her trippin'

down the glen;

There's not a lad of life and fame that wouldn't take

her shillin'

And inlist inside her service-did ye hear her laughin'

then?

Did ye see her with her hand in mine the day that

Clancy married?

Ah, darlin', how we footed it-the grass it was so

green!

And when the neighbours wandered home, I was the

guest that tarried,

An hour plucked from Paradise--come back to me,

Rosleen!

Across the seas, beyand the hills, by lovely Inniskillen,

The rigiment come marchin'--I hear the call once

more

Shure, a woman's but a woman--so I took the Sergeant's

shillin',

For the pride o' me was hurted--shall I never see

her more?

She turned her face away from me, and black as night

the land became;

Her eyes were jewels of the sky, the finest iver seen;

She left me for another lad, he was a lad of life and

fame,

And the heart of me was hurted--but there's none

that's like Rosleen!"

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