They play the sweetest music that ever my ears did hear,
For my heart was stole away by colonel Thompson's volunteer.
I'll bid adieu to father, likewise to mother too,
I'll never forsake my soldier but unto him prove true,
And I'll range the country over with the lad that I love dear,
Since I'm bound in wedlock's bonds to colonel Thompson's volunteer.
THE SLEDMERE POACHERS.[258]
COME, all you gallant poaching lads, and gan alang with me,
And let's away to Sledmere woods, some game for to see;