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I took m.y banjo from the wall,
To twang a new melody
To you, dear Belly:
The old songs, I've forgotten all.
Oh.do you remembersurely you do
The happy hour I met with you?
't Is long ago
I walked along your cottage fair,
And saw you in the garden there;
You looked at me: one glance enough
To send me a blessing as from above.
The weather was fine, nay that is true,
The sun shone in the sky so blue.
But it is long, very long ago!
The evening there upon
I've to the meeting gone;
The nigger's band was playing bright,
Do you remember, love, that night?
I saw you again your eyes again
And soon I fell in love, that 's plain,,
But it happened so very long ago!
And soon we went together for a spoon,
Cause you were a rosebud and I was a coon;
And long, long I gazed into your eyes,
My loving heart soon grew in size.
