Anonymous English Heart Poems
- 1. Any Soldier To His Son
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?
Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack floor.
I learned to push a barrow and I learned to swing a pick,
I learned to turn my toes out, and to make my eyeballs click.
... - 2. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
WHILE going the road to sweet Athy,
Hurroo! hurroo!
While going the road to sweet Athy,
Hurroo! hurroo!
... - 3. Nell Flaherty-s Drake
MY NAME it is Nell, right candid I tell,
And I live near a dell I neâ??er will deny,
I had a large drake, the truth for to spake,
My grandfather left me when going to die;
... - 4. The Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe
COME all ye lads and lassies and listen to me a while,
And I-ll sing for you a verse or two will cause you all to smile;
It-s all about a young man, and I-m going to tell you now,
How he lately came a-courting of the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.
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