Mantle So Green

As I went out walking one morning in June

To view the fair fields and the valleys in bloom

I spied a pretty fair maid she appeared like a queen

With her costly fine robes and her mantle so green

Says I"My pretty fair maid won't you come with me

We'll both join in wedlock and married we'll be

I'll dress you in fine linen you'll appear like a queen

With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green"

Says she now"You Young man you must be excused

For I'll wed with no man you must be refused

To the green woods I will wander to shun all men's view

For the lad that I love fell in famed Waterloo"

"O then if you won't marry tell me your love's name

For I being in battle I might know the same"

"Draw near to my garment and there will be seen

His name is embroidered on my mantle so green"

In raising her mantle there I did behold

His name and his surname in letters of gold

Young William O'Reilly appeared in my view

He was my chief comrade back in famed Waterloo

But when he was dying I heard his last cry

'If you were here Lovely Nancy contented I'd die '

Now Peace is proclaimed and the truth I declare

Here is your love token the gold ring I wear"

O Nancy dear Nancy 'tis I won your heart

In your father's garden that day we did part

Now the wars are all over no trouble is seen

And I'll wed with my true love in her mantle so green"