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  • Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight With people here workin' by day and by night

  • They don't sow potatoes, nor barley, nor wheat But there's gangs of them diggin' for gold

  • in the street At least when I asked them that's what I was

  • told So I just took a hand at this diggin' for

  • gold But for all that I found there I might as

  • well be In the place where the dark Mournes sweep

  • down to the sea.

  • I believe that when writin' a wish you expressed As to how the fine ladies in London were dressed

  • Well if you'll believe me, when asked to a ball

  • They don't wear no tops to their dresses at all

  • Oh I've seen them myself and you could not in truth

  • Say that if they were bound for a ball or a bath

  • Don't be startin' them fashions, now Mary McCree

  • In the place where the dark Mournes sweep down to the sea.

  • There's beautiful girls here, oh never you mind

  • beautiful shapes nature never designed Lovely complexions all roses and cream

  • But let me remark with regard to the same That if that those roses you venture to sip

  • The colors might all come away on your lip So I'll wait for the wild rose that's waitin'

  • for me In the place where the dark Mourne sweeps

  • down to the sea.

  • You remember young Denny McLaren of course well he's over here with the rest of the force

  • I saw him one day as he stood on the strand stopped all the traffic with one wave

  • of his hand And as we were talking of days that are gone

  • the whole town of London stood there to look on But for all his great power he's wishin' like

  • me to be back where the dark Mournes sweeps down

  • to the sea

Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight With people here workin' by day and by night

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莫恩山,唐-麥克萊恩--帶字幕的精美版本 (Mountains of Mourne, Don McLean - beautiful version with captions)

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    許哲維 posted on 2021/01/14
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