Faithless Nelly Gray : a Pathetic Ballad

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(Hefty "Oh, NellyGray! Oh, Nelly Gray !
Is this your love so warm? The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform!" Said she, "I loved a soldier once, For he was blithe and brave; But I will never have a man With both legs in the grave !
"Before you had those tim- ber toes, Your love I did allow; But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now!" 8 Oh, Nelly Gray ! Oh, Nelly Gray! For all your jeering speech- es.
At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches!" 9 "Why then
..., " said she, "you've lost the feet - Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms!" 10 Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray!
I know why you refuse: Though I Ve no feet some other man Is standing in my shoes!
1 1 " I wish I ne'er had seen your face; But, now, a long farewell ! For you will be my death; alas ! You will not be mv Nell!" (Brag Now when he went from Nelly Gray, His heart so heavy got. And life was such a burthen grown, It made him take a knot!
So round his melancholy neck A rope he did entwine, And, for his second time in life, Enlisted in the Line!


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