Annotation:Wars alarms entic’d my Willy

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WARS ALARMS ENTIC'D MY WILLY. Scottish, English; Air (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The wordsto the song were printed in The Goldfinch, or New Modern Songster (Glasgow, c. 1785, p. 194)

WARS ALARMS ENTIC'D MY WILLY.

WHEN wars alarms entie'd my Willy from me,
My poor heart with grief did figh,
Each foft remembrance brought frefh forrow on me,
I 'woke ere yet the morn was nigh.
No other could delight him,
Ah ! why did I e'er ffight him?
Coldly aufwering his fond tale,
Which drove him far
Amid the rage -of war,
And left ally me thus to bewail., But I no longer, tho' a maid forfaken,
Thus will mourn like voider dove,
For, 'ere the lark to-morrow mail awaken,
I will feek my abfent love;
The hoftile country over
I'll fly to feek my lover,
Scorning ev'ry threat'ning fear;
No diftant more,
Nor cannon's roar,
Shall longer keep me from my dear.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 3), 1788; No. 593, p. 226.

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