One starry night as I lay sleepin One starry night as I lay in bed Dreamed I heard wagon wheels acreakin When I awoke, love, found you had fled Ill search the highways, likewise the byways Ill search the boreens, the camping places too I will inquire of all our people Have they tide or tidings or sight of you For its manys the mile, love, with you Ive traveled Manys the hour, love, with you Ive spent Dreamed you were my love forever But now I find, love, you were only lent Ill go across the seas to England To London or to Birmingham And in some public house Ill find you Lamenting your lost love back home Im drunk today, Im seldom sober A handsome rover from town to town When I am dead, my story ended Molly Bn a stoirn, come lay me down One starry night as I lay sleepin One starry night as I lay in bed Dreamed I heard wagon wheels acreakin Now that youre gone, love, I might as well be dead
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