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Title: Mollie Charane
and Other Ballads

Editor: Thomas J. Wise

Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27408]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was
made.

MOLLIE CHARANE
AND OTHER BALLADS

BY
GEORGE BORROW

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1913

_Copyright in the United States of America_
_by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_.

MOLLIE CHARANE {5}

"O, Mollie Charane, where got you your gold?"
Lone, lone you have left me here.
"O not in the curragh, deep under the mould."
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.

"O, Mollie Charane, where got you your stock?"
Lone, lone you have left me here.
"O not in the curragh from under a block."
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.

"O, Mollie Charane, where got you your goods?"
Lone, lone you have left me here.
"O not in the curragh from under two sods."
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.

Two pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes--
Lone, lone you have left me here--
For twenty-six years old Mollie did use.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.

His stockings were white, but his sandals, alack!--
Lone, lone you have left me here--
Were not of one colour, one white, t'other black.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.

One sandal was white and t'other dark brown--
Lone, lone you have left me here;--
But he'd two of one colour for kirk and for town.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.

"O, father, I really can't walk by your side"--
Lone, lone you have left me here--
"If you go to the church in those sand