THE NIGHTINGALE



SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer



SOURCE'S SOURCE: Margaret Chrystl [17A 148*3 + T Bikel/C Gooding



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My sweetheart come along, don't you hear the sweet song

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Of the beautiful nightingale flow

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You will hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale

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As she sings in the valley below

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As she sings in the valley below



Pray leave me alone, I have hands of my own

And along with you I'll not go

For to hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale

As she sings in the valley below....



Pretty Polly, don't fail, and I'll carry your pail

Straight home to your cottage we'll go

We will hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale

As she sings in the valley below....



Pray sit yourself down with me on the ground

On the banks where the primroses grow

You will hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale

As she sings in the valley below....



Down in yonder grove there is an alcove

And violets around it do spring

Just by in a bush there sits a song thrush

'Twill charm you to hear how she sings....



Why hark, my love, hark, why yonder's a lark

She warbles and pleases me so

That the beautiful tale of the sweet nightingale

Will never entice me to go....



The two lovers agreed to be married with speed

And straight to the church they did go

Now no more she's afraid to go down in the shade

Or to walk in the valley below....



@animal @love @courtship

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