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 His darling hoard the miser views,

misses from friends decamp,

And many a statesman mischief brews

to his country o’er his lamp;

So father and I, d'ye take me right,

are just on the fame lay,

I bare-fac’d sinners light by night,

and he false faints by day,

So father and I, d’ye take me right, &c.

Y father often told me,

He never would controul me.

But make me a draper it I staid at home,

But I took a notion,

Of a higher promotion,

To try other parts than the county of Tyrone.

It was not in variance,

That I left my parents,

As little they knew the road I had gone;

But I thank my instructor,

And kindly conductor,   (rone.

Who landed me safe from the county of Ty-

When I travelled to Newry,

Where l fell a courting,

A courting a girl for a wife of my own,

But when I came to her,

She would not endure me,     (Tyrone.

She told me I was married in the county of