All Around My Hat

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All around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat,
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I'm wearing it
It's all for my true love
who's far far away

Faretheewell cold winter,
and faretheewell cold frost
Nothing have I gained,
but my own true love I've lost
I'll sing and I'll be merry
when occasion I do see
he's a false deluded young man,
let him go, farewell he

And all around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat,
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I'm wearing it
It's all for my true love
who's far far away

The other night he brought me
a fine diamond ring
But he thought to have deprived me
of a far better thing
But I being careful
like lovers ought to be
he's a false deluded young man,
let him go, farewell he

And all around my hat
I will wear the green willow
And all around my hat,
for a twelve month and a day
And if anyone should ask me
the reason why I'm wearing it
It's all for my true love
who's far far away