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Title
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Rambleaway
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Singer
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Unknown
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Song Lyrics
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Verse 1
The very first foot that I stepped in the fair
I saw pretty Nancy a-curling her hair
I tipped her a wink and she rolled her black eye
Said 1 - 'Pretty Nancy, I'll be back by and by.'
Verse 2
As I was a-walking at night in the dark,
I took pretty Nancy to be my sweetheart;
She smiled in my face and thus she did say -
Are you the young man I call 'Ramble away'.'
Verse 3
I said - 'Pretty Nancy, don't smile in my face,
For I do not intend to stay long in this place;
So I tipped her a double from far Gloucestershire -
'My name it is Ramble - no one knows where'.
Verse 4
You daddy and mammy are both gone from home,
I'll sell them a song when they do return;
I will sing them a song and thus I will say -
'Your daughter's gone off with young Ramble away'.'
