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1. Down by a River-side, / A fair maid I espied, / Lamenting for her own true love; / Lamenting, crying, sighing, dying; / Dying for her own true love.
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2. Did you not promise me, / That I your wife should be? / Yet I deserted here must mourn; / I who believed, now bereaved, grieved; / I who believed, now bereaved, tarry here in tears forlorn.
3. Dry up your briny tears, / And banish all your fears, / For faithful I to you will prove; / So now she's singing, clinging, Church Bells ringing, / So now she's singing, Church bells ringing, married to her own true love.