A BROKEN SONG

'_Where am I from?_' From the green hills of Erin.

'_Have I no song then?_' My songs are all sung.

'_What o' my love?_' 'Tis alone I am farin'.

Old grows my heart, an' my voice yet is young.

'_If she was tall?_' Like a king's own daughter.

'_If she was fair?_' Like a mornin' o' May.

When she'd come laughin' 'twas the runnin' wather,

When she'd come blushin' 'twas the break o' day.

'_Where did she dwell?_' Where one'st I had my dwellin'.

'_Who loved her best?_' There's no one now will know.

'_Where is she gone?_' Och, why would I be tellin'!

Where she is gone there I can never go.

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