The Girl I Left Behind Me
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The hour was sad I left a maid
A lingering farewell taking
Whose sighs and tears my steps delayed
I thought her heart was breaking.
In hurried words her name I blest
I breathed the vows that bind me
And to my heart in anguish pressed
The girl I left behind me.
Then to the east we bore away
To win a name in story
And there where dawns the sun of day
There dawned our sun of glory.
The place ??? in my sight
When in the host assigned me
I shared the glory of that fight
Sweet girl I left behind me.
Though many a name our banner bore
Of former deeds of daring
But they were of the day of yore
In which we had no sharing,
But now our laurels freshly won
With the old one shall entwine me
Singing worthy of our size each son
Sweet girl I left behind me.
The hope of final victory
Within my bosom burning
Is mingling with sweet thoughts of thee
And of my fond returning,
But should I n'er return again
Still with thy love i'll bind me
Dishonors breath shall never stain
The name I leave behind me.
This is the same tune (with socially acceptable words) as The Wayward Boy<br> which is listed in the Bawdy Songs section.<br> The first known printed text of a song with this name appeared in the<br> serial song collection The Charms of Melody, Dublin, Ireland, issue no. 72,<br> printed in Dublin from 1791 and in Exshaw's Magazine (Dublin, September 1794).<br> The earliest known version of the melody was printed about 1810 in<br> Hime's Pocket Book for the German Flute or Violin.<br> This is the same tune as the Morris dance tune Brighton Camp that appears<br> in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time.<br> <br> I play this in medleys with:<br> Boatman's Dance,<br> Buffalo Gals,<br> Buffalo Girls,<br> Cherokee Shuffle,<br> Georgia Railroad,<br> Seneca Square Dance,<br> all in the Tunes section.<br> and Angelina Baker in the Songs section.<br>
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