The Mountains of Pomeroy    (video)

 

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1. The morn was breaking bright and fair, the lark sang in the sky,

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    when the maid she bound her golden hair 

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    with a blithe glance in her eye.

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    For who beyond the grey-green wood was awaiting her with joy ?

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    Oh, who but her gallant Renardine on the Mountains of Pomeroy !

 

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2. Full often in the dawning hour, full oft in the twilight brown 

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    he met the maid in the woodland bower 

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    where the stream comes falling down.

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    For they were faithful in a love no wars could e'er destroy,

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    no tyrant’s laws touched Renardine on the Mountains of Pomeroy.

 

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3. "Dear love," she said, "I'm sore afraid for the foeman's force and you,

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    they've tracked you in the lowland’s plain and all the valley through.

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    My kinsmen frown when you are named, your life they would destroy.

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    "Beware", they say, "of Renardine on the Mountains of Pomeroy!" 

 

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4. "Fear not, fear not, sweetheart, my love, fear not the foe for me !

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    No chain shall fall, what e'er betide on the arms which will be free.

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    Oh, leave your cruel kin and come when the lark sings in the sky,

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    and it's with my gun I will guard you on the Mountains of Pomeroy!" 

 

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5. When morn has come, she rose and fled 

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    from her cruel kin and her home,

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    and bright the wood and rosy red, and the tumbling torrent's foam.

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    But the mist came down and the tempest roared,

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    and all around did destroy,

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    And a pale, drowned bride met Renardine,

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    on the Mountains of Pomeroy.

 

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6. An outlawed man in a land forlorn, he scorned to turn and fly,

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    but he kept the cause of freedom safe up on the mountains high.

 

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(orig. = capo 1st)    (Tommy Fleming)