Bonny Bunch Of Roses - Fairport Convention

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By the margin of the ocean

One summer day in the month of June

The feather'd warbling songsters

Their voices sweetly sang in tune

It was there I met a female all overcome with grief and woe

Conversing with napoleon on the bonny bunch of roses o

Then up spoke young napoleon

And he took her by the hand

Saying mother dear be patient

And I soon will take command

And I'll raise a mighty army

And through tremendous dangers go

And I'll conquer all the universe

And I'll have the Bonny bunch of roses o

When first you saw great Bonaparte

You fell upon your bended knee

And asked your father's life of him

He granted it most manfully

It was then he took an army

And o'er the frozen alps did go

Saying I'll conquer Moscow

And come back for the Bonnie bunch of roses o

Oh he took a mighty army

Princes and dukes were in his train

He was so well provided for

Enough to sweep the world for gain

But when he came to Moscow

All overpowered by sleet and snow

And Moscow was a blazing

He lost the Bonnie bunch of roses o

Now son don't speak so venturesome

For England has the heart of oak

And England Ireland Scotland

Their unity will ne'er be broke

So remember your father

In saint Helena he lies low

And you will follow after

Beware of the Bonnie bunch of roses o

Adieu adieu forever

Now I bow my youthful head

Had I lived I might have been clever

But now I lie on my dying bed

And as the waters do flow

And the weeping willows over me grow

The name of brave napoleon will enshrine

The Bonnie bunch of roses o