The Green Linnet chords by Maggie Boyle

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Verse 1
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Curiosity led a     young
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native of Aran
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to view the green banks
of the Rhine.
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When  an empress he saw,
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and the robes that she was wearing
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All over her with diamonds it shine.
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No    god dess in  splendour
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was ever yet seen
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to equal this beauty so
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mild and serene.
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In soft murmur she cried,
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My linnet so green.
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Sweet bony,
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shall I ne 'er see you more.
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Neither Hannibal nor Caesar,
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nor brave Alexander,
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nor Hector, the Trojan so bold,
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Was ever yet braver,
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wherever you did wander,
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You cared not for heat or for cold.
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It    graced me the hard
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ships you did undergo
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Over  mountains you've travelled
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all covered with snow
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And the bal   ance of power
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you swiftly laid low
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O     sweet Boney,
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shall I ne 'er see you more
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All the crown heads of Europe,
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they sat in great splendour,
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an  d   swore they would
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bear you no weight.
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But   the goddess of freedom
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soon made them surrender,
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An  d  they lowered their
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banks to your way
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Both Fre   deric's col ours
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to  France you did   bring
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His   offspring found shelter
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in under your wing.
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An  d that year in  Vienna
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you sweetly did sing.
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Sweet boney shall I
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ne 'er see you more.
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I have searched all the deserts
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of wide Abyssinia
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But can't find no cure for my pain
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I   would go and enquire at
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the Isle of St. Helena
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But for mur murs whispered,
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surely it is in vain
Come tell me, you critics,
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come tell me in time
What lands must I wander
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my green Lynette to find?
Was he slain at Waterloo
In Spain or on the Rhine?
No, he's dead on St. Helena's lakeshore.