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Rewrite of My Bonny Boy English Folk Song - 2nd movement in Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite Version based on Shirley Collins - My Bonny Boy [Verse 1]
I Amonce loved a girl and a sweet pretty Ggirl, I Amloved heCr I Gvow Emand Amprotest, I Amloved her so well, so very very Gwell, That I Aminvited her in my nest. Till I Amlet her Dinto my Amnest.
[Verse 2]
'AmTwas through the mountains and up theG rocky road LAmike one CthatG wasEm troAmubled in mind, I Amwaved and I shouted, surprised aGnd dumbfounded But no Amdarling girl could I find. But no Amdarling Dgirl couAmld I find.
[Verse 3]
I Amsearched up high and I looked down loGw ThAme weatheCr being GwondEmerfully Amwarm; AnAmd who should I spy but my own prGetty girl Locked Amfast in another lads arms. so closAme in anoDther manAms arms
[Verse 4]
NoAmw my pretty girl is across the salt sGeas AAmnd I mayC never sGee hEmer aAmgain; aAmnd though she departed, left me Gbroken-hearted I willAm think of her once now and then I will Amthink ofD her oncAme now and then
[Verse 5]
NoAmw the lad that has my own pretty gGirl, He is Amnot to be blaGmed,Em I am Amsure, AmFor many's the night she has robbed me of my rGest But ne´Amr shall she do it no more. Oh she Amnever shDall do iAmt no more.