As I went out walking one morning in June, To view the fair fields and the valleys in bloom, I spied a pretty fair maid she appeared like a queen With her costly fine robes and her mantle so green.
Says I, "My pretty fair maid, won´t you come with me We´ll both join in wedlock, and married we´ll be, I´ll dress you in fine linnen, you´ll appear like a queen, With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green."
Says she now, "You Young man, you must be excused, For I´ll wed with no man, you must be refused; To the green woods I will wander to shun all men´s view, ........(?) For the lad that I love fell in famed Waterloo."
"O, then, if you won´t marry, tell me your love´s name, For I being in battle, I might know the same." "Draw near to my garment and there will be seen, His name is embroidered on my mantle so green."
In raising her mantle there I did behold His name and his surname in letters of gold; Young William O´Reilly appeared in my view He was my chief comrade back in famed Waterloo.
But when he was dying I heard his last cry ´If you were here, Lovely Nancy, contented I´d die;´ Now Peace is proclaimed, and the truth I declare Here is your love token, the gold ring I wear."
O, Nancy, dear Nancy, ´tis I won your heart In your father´s garden that day we did part. Now the wars are all over, no trouble is seen And I´ll wed with my true love in her mantle so green."
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