Och, girls dear, did you ever hear, I wrote my love a letter.
And although he cannot read, sure I thought ’twas all the better;
For why should he be puzzled with hard spelling in the matter,
When the meaning was so plain that I love him faithfully?
I love him faithfully,
And he knows it, oh, he knows it, without one word from me.
I wrote it, and I folded it, and put a seal upon it;
’Twas a seal almost as big as the crown of my best bonnet;
For I would not have the Postmaster make his remarks upon it,
As I said inside the letter that I loved him faithfully,