Sweet Polly Oliver  audio clip
As sweet Polly Oliver lay musing in bed
A sudden strange fancy came into her head
"Nor father nor mother shall make me false prove,
I'll 'list as a soldier, and follow my love."
So early next morning she softly arose
And dressed herself up in her dead brother's clothes
She cut her hair close, and she stained her face brown
And went for a soldier to fair London Town
Then up spoke the sergeant one day at his drill
"Now who's good for nursing? A captain, he's ill."
"I'm ready," said Polly. To nurse him she's gone
And finds it's her true love all wasted and wan
The first week the doctor kept shaking his head
"No nursing, young fellow, can save him," he said.
But when Pooly Oliver had nursed him back to life
He cried, "You have cherished him as if you were his wife".
O then Polly Oliver, whe burst into tears
And told the good doctor her hopes and her fears
And very shortly after, for better or for worse
The captain took joyfully his pretty soldier nurse
song credits:
song arranged by Benjamin Britten
Geoffrey Parsons, piano
published by Boosey & Co. Ltd.
@1988 EMI Records Ltd.
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Early One MorningX
Come You Not From Newcastle ? X
Sweet Polly Oliver X
The Trees They Grow So High X
The Ash Grove X
O Waly, Waly X
How Sweet The Answer X
The Plough Boy X
Voici Le Printemps X
The Last Rose Of Summer X
Le Belle Est Au Jardin D'amour X
Fileuse X
Dear Harp Of My Country X
Little Sir William X
O Can Ye Sew Cushions ? X
Oft In The Stilly Night X
Quand J'étais Chez Mon Père X
There's None To Soothe X
Oliver Cromwell X
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