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As I was an old bachelor,
I followed a rovin' trade
And all the harm that ever I done,
I courted a servant maid.
I courted her one summer season
And part of the winter, too,
And many a time I rolled my love
All over the foggy dew
One night as I lay on my bed
A-takin' my balmy sleep,
The pretty fair maid cme up to me
And how bitterly she did weep.
She wept, she morned, she tore her hair,
"Alas,what shall I do?
This night I resolved to sleep with you
For fear of the foggy dew."
Now all the first part of that night,
How we did sport and play,
And through the latter part of that night
She in my arms did lay,
And when broad daylight did appear
She cried, "I am undone!"
"Oh, hold your tongue you silly young thing
For the foggy dew is gone."
I loved that girl with all my heart,
I loved her s I loved my life,
And in the early part of that year
I made her my lawful wife.
I never told him of her faults
And I never intend to do,
Yet many a time she winks and smiles,
I think of the foggy dew
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