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Kinloch MSS, I, 113. From Mary Barr, June, 1827.
1
‘’Tis, old England, old England, I bid thee adieu,
The drums and the trumpets command me frae shore;
And you lusty fellows, both valiant and true,
Will you venture with me where loud cannons roar?’
2
‘O Billy, O Billy, talk not of the seas,
But stay at home with me on the shore;