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Mollie Charane, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow
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Title: Mollie Charane
and Other Ballads
Editor: Thomas J. Wise
Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27408]
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOLLIE CHARANE***
Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
MOLLIE CHARANE
and other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
MOLLIE CHARANE [5]
O, Mollie Charane, where got you your gold?
Lone, lone you have left me here.
O not in the curragh, deep under the mould.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.
O, Mollie Charane, where got you your stock?
Lone, lone you have left me here.
O not in the curragh from under a block.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.
O, Mollie Charane, where got you your goods?
Lone, lone you have left me here.
O not in the curragh from under two sods.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.
Two pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes—
Lone, lone you have left me here—
For twenty-six years old Mollie did use.
Lone, lone, and
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