Annotation:Mary I believed thee true
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MARY I BELIEVED THEE TRUE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Mary I believed thee true" is the name of a song by wikipedia:Thomas_Moore (1779-1852), set to music composed by Sir John Andrew Stevenson (1761-1833), first published c. 1808. The first two stanzas go:
Mary, I believed thee true,
And I was blest in thus believing;
But now I mourn that e'er I knew
A girl so fair and so deceiving!
Few have ever loved like me,—
O! I have loved thee too sincerely;
And few have e'er deceived like thee,—
Alas! deceived me too severely!
