[00:38.72]As I went out walking, one morning in June
[00:47.00]To view the fair fields, and the valleys in bloom;
[00:55.53]I spied a pretty fair maid, she appeared like a queen,
[01:03.58]With her costly fine robes and her mantle so green
[01:16.37]Says I, my pretty fair maid, wont you come with me,
[01:24.82]We’ll both join in wedlock, and married we’ll be;
[01:33.45]I will dress you in fine linen, you’ll appear like a queen,
[01:41.56]With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green.
[01:54.07]Says she, now my young man, you must be excused,
[02:02.66]For I’ll wed no man, so you must be refused;
[02:11.29]To the green woods I will wander and shun all men’s view
[02:18.98]For the boy I love dearly lies in farmed waterloo.
[02:58.30]Well if you’re not married, say your lover’s name
[03:06.43]I fought in that battle, so I might know the same.
[03:15.00]Draw near to my garment, and there you will see
[03:22.90]His name is embroidered on my mantle so green.
[03:35.76]In the ribbon of her mantle, there I did behold,
[03:44.11]His name and his surname, in letters of gold
[03:52.72]Young William O’Riley, appeared in my view
[04:00.89]He was my chief comrade back in farmed waterloo
[04:13.67]And as he lay dying, I heard his last cry
[04:21.51]“If you were here lovely Nancy I’d be willing to die”
[04:30.29]And as I told her this story, in anguish she flew,
[04:38.63]And the more that I told her, the paler she grew
[04:51.01]So I smiled on my Nancy, ‘twas I broke your heart,
[04:59.55]In your fathers garden, that day we did part
[05:08.17]And this is the truth, and the truth I declare,
[05:16.30]Oh here’s your love token the gold ring I wear.