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I sat within a valley green
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I sat me with my true love
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My sad heart it was torn between
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The old love and the new love
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The old for her, the new that made
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me think on Ireland dearly
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While soft the wind blew down the glen
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And it shook the golden barley
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'Twas hard for me those words to frame
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To break the ties that bound us
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And harder still to bear the shame
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Of foreign chains around us
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And so I said, "The mountain glen
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I'll seek at morning early
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To join the brave United Men
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Where soft wind shakes the barley"
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I kissed away my true love’s tears
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My fond arms ‘round her flinging
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When a foeman’s shot burst on our ears
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From out the wild woods ringing
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The bullet pierced my true love's side
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In life's young spring so early
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And there she died upon my breast
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While soft winds shook the barley
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Then blood for blood without remorse
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I gained at Oulart’s Hollow
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I laid my true love's clay-cold corpse
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Where I full soon must follow
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And o’er her grave I wandered drear
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Noon, night and morning early
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With a breaking heart when e'er I hear
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The wind that shakes the barley