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As I Roved Out

from among the flowers by Janette Geri

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Another I learned from Mia. This is the other of the 2 songs with the same name. (Too Ry Ahh is also called as ‘I rode out’, sometimes its also called ‘pretty fair maid’, although there are other songs with that name too. yikes) It’s song of experience and regret. The man in this story decides to forgo his true love and marry the lassie with the land. We must not be too quick to judge him, who knows why he felt he had to make that decision, one he bitterly regrets, but so he does. The lesson here is don’t fuck about with love.

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As I rode out one bright may morning
To view the meadows and flowers gay
Who did I spy but my own true lover
As she sat by yon willow tree


Well I took off my hat and I did salute her
I saluted her most courageously
But when she turned round well the tears fell from her
Saying false young man
You deluded me

The diamond ring
I ought I gave to you
A diamond ring to wear on your right hand
But the vows you made you went and broke them
To marry the lassie
Who had the land

Well if I married the lassie who had the land my love
It is this ill rue until the day I die
When misfortune comes no man can charm it
I was blindfolded
Oh ill ne’er deny

And now when I go to bed at night and slumber
Oh thoughts of my true love run through my mind
And when I turn round to embrace my darling
Instead of gold
It is brass I find

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from among the flowers, released June 23, 2018

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