The Banks Of The Lee Lyrics - Silly Wizard

Where true lovers meet beneath the green bower 

Where true lovers meeted beneath the green tree 

And Mary, fond Mary, she says unto her true love 

"You have stolen my young heart by the banks of the Lee" 

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For I loved her very dearly, most truly and sincerely 

There is no one in this wide world I love more than she 

Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower 

Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee 

"Don't stay out too late, love, on the moorlands, my Mary 

Don't stay out too late, love, on the moorlands for me" 

But it's little was my notion, when we parted by the ocean 

That we were forever parted by the banks of the Lee 

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I will pull my love some roses, some wild Irish roses 

I will pull my love some roses, the fairest to see 

And I'll lay them on the gravesite of my own dear darling Mary 

On that cold and silent grave where she sleeps 'neath the dew 

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