Shall be the road o' Jessie Lee.

TRUE LOVE.

As evenèn aïr, in green-treed Spring,

Do sheäke the new-sprung pa'sley bed,

An' wither'd ash-tree keys do swing

An' vall a-flutt'rèn roun' our head:

There, while the birds do zing their zong

In bushes down the ash-tree drong,

Come Jessie Lee, vor sweet's the pleäce