tavern song - the bold grenadier | Текст песни

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• tavern song
• the bold grenadier

As I was out walking one morning in may
I spied a young couple who fondly did stray
One was a young maid so sweet and so fair
and the other was a soldier and a bold grenadier

And they kissed so sweet and comforting as they clung to each other
They went arm and arm along the road like sister and brother
They went arm and arm along the road till they came to a stream
And they both sat down together to hear the nightingale sing

Out of his napsack he took a fine fiddle
And he played such a merry tune that you ever did hear
And he played such a merry tune that the valley did ring
Oh soft cried the fair maid to hear the nightingale sing

And they kissed so sweet and comforting as they clung to each other
They went arm and arm along the road like sister and brother
They went arm and arm along the road till they came to a stream
And they both sat down together to hear the nightingale sing

Well I'm off to india for seven long years
Drinking wine and whiskey instead of small beers
And if I return again it will be in the spring
And we'll both sit down together to hear the nightingale sing

'Well then' said the fair maid 'will you not marry me'
'Oh no' said the soldier 'how well can that be'
For I have my own wife on the banks of the Dee
And she's the fairest damsel that you ever did see

And they kissed so sweet and comforting as they clung to each other
They went arm and arm along the road like sister and brother
They went arm and arm along the road till they came to a stream
And they both sat down together to hear the nightingale sing