
lirik lagu frank harte - bonny bunch of roses
[verse 1]
by the margin of the ocean, one pleasant morning in the month of june
when all those feathered songsters, their liquid notes did sweetly tune
and ’twas there i spied a female, and on her features were the signs of woe
conversing with young bonaparte, concerning the bonny bunch of roses o
[verse 2]
then up speaks young napoleon and he takes his mother by the hand
saying, “mother dear, be patient, until i’m able for to take command
and i’ll raise a mighty army, and through tremendous dangers go
and i never will return again until i’ve conquered the bonny bunch of roses o”
[verse 3]
when first you saw great bonaparte, you fell upon your bended knee
and you asked your father’s life of him, and he granted it right manfully
and ’twas then he took his army, and over the frozen alps did go
and he says, “i’ll conquer moscow and then return for the bonny bunch of roses o”
[verse 4]
well, he took three hundred thousand men and kings likewise to bear his train
he was so well provided for that he could have swept the whole world for gain
but when he came to moscow he was overpowered by the sleet and snow
and with moscow all a blazing ’twas he lost the bonny bunch of roses o
[verse 5]
“oh, mother, he was loyal and always he proved true to you
until that fatal morning when he went to the plains of waterloo
thousands there lay on the field whilst their blood like fountains it did flow
but grouchy proved a traitor and lost was the bonny bunch of roses o”
[verse 6]
“oh, son, be not too venturesome for england is the heart of oak
and england, ireland, scotland, their unity shall ne’er be broke
remember your brave father, in saint helena he lies low
and if you’d follow after then beware of the bonnie bunch of roses o”
[verse 7]
“oh, mother, adieu forever for it’s now i lie on my dying bed
if i had lived i’d have been clever but now i bow my youthful head
and when my bones lie mouldering and weeping willow o’er me grow
the name of great napoleon will sting the bonny bunch of roses o”
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