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Shule shule, shule aroon

Shule the agaragar, shule the coon

Shule shule shule aroon

I don't think that anyone should tie me oh

Here I sit on Buttermilk Hill

Weep I will and weep my fill

Every tear would turn a mill

Johnny is gone for a soldier

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I'll send my flax sell my meal,

Sell my only spinnin' wheel

Buy my love a sword of steel

Johnny's gone for a soldier

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Loved him oh I loved him so

Broke my heart to see him go

Only time can heal my woe

Johnny's gone for a soldier

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I sold my flax and my meal

Sold my only spinnin' wheel

Now he's dead upon the field

Johnny's gone for a soldier

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