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 For a long time she kept it secret,

For poor girl she durst not tell.

But when her father came to know it,

He did rage from morn till noon;

And the reason you may know it,

Was rearing the child by the light of the moon.

It happened on a summer evening,

I met her father all alone;

Then he cried, O cruel Johnny,

You’ve left my Sally all undone.

But if you promise to marry Sally,

While you are both in your bloom,

Three hundred pounds I’ll quickly pay thee,

And half of my land by the light of the moon.

Immediately I married Sally,

Early by the morning dawn;

Then I made him pay her portion,

On the table pay it down;

I did not tarry for to count it,

Nor to look it over again.

But I swept all into her apron,

A fine lucky-penny by the light of the moon.

HOW blithe was I each morn to see

My swain come o’er the hill;

She leap’d the brock, and flew to me;

I met him with good will.