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Sixty bright guineas of pure gold,
my father will me provide,
With sixty acres of good land,
down by the Shannon-side.
I said, My lovely damsel,
I love the offer well,
But that I am engaged
the truth to you I tell,
Unto another damsel,
who is to be my bride,
A wealthy Grazier's Daughter,
that lives on yon mountain side.
Now since you will not marry me,
pray let me know your name,
That when your child is born,
I may call it the same.
I am called Captain Thunderbolt,
my name I'll never deny,
And I have men at my command,
on yonder mountain high.
We then shook hands and parted,
and straight I took my way,
And looking back behind me,
I hard her for to say,
Now I may be a warning,
to all fair maids beside,
Never to trust a man again
upon the Shannon-side.
G L A S G O W,
Printed by J. and M. Robertson, Saltmarket, ⟨1802⟩
