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 5 If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer there, Where the sunbeams sweetly smile. There’s the land or cherry isle. Cherry ripe, &c.

Where the sunbeams sweetly smile. There’s the land or cherry isle. There plantations fully shew All the year where cherries grow.

Cherry ripe, ripe, cherry ripe, I cry; Full and fair ones come and buy. Full and fair ones come and buy.

HEY THE BONNIE BREAST KNOTS.

Hey the bonnie, ho the bonnie, Hey the bonnie breast knots ; Blythe and merry were they a’ When they put on their breast-knots.

There was a bridal in this town. And till’t the lasses a’ were boun’, Wi’ mapkie facings on their gown, And some of them had breast-knots. Singing, hey the bonnie, &c.

At nine o’clock the lads convene, Some clad in blue, some clad in green, Wi’ shinin’ buckles in their sheen, And flowers upon their waistcoat.