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'Twas on a summer's evening all in the month of May Down by a flowery garden where Betsy she did stray I overheard a fair maid in sorrow to complain All for her absent lover that ploughs the raging main I stepped up to this fair maid and put her in surprise She owned she did not know me, I being all in disguise Says I, “My charming creature, my joy and heart's delight How far have you to travel this dark and rainy night?” “Away, kind sir, to the Claudy banks if you will please to show Pity a poor girl distracted for there I have to go I am in search of a young man and Johnny is his name And on the banks of Claudy I'm told hе does remain” “And if Johnny he was hеre tonight he'd keep me from all harm He's a-cruising the wide ocean in tempest and in storm He's a-cruising the wide ocean for honour or for gain” “But I'm told his ship's got wreck-ed all on the coast of Spain” Now when Betsy heard this dreadful news she fell into despair With a-wringing of her hands and a-tearing of her hair “Now Johnny's gone and left me no man on earth I'll take But in some lonesome valley I'll wander for his sake” Young Johnny hearing her say so he could no longer stand He fell into her arms crying, “Betsy, I'm that man I am your faithful young man and whom you thought was slain But since we meet on Claudy banks we'll never part again”
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