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Polly Vaughn

Trad.

Annie Briggs

Come all you young fellow that handle a gun

Beware you shoot as the nights drawing on

Young Jimmy met his true love

Mistook her for a swan

And he shot her and killed her

By the setting of the sun

Then home ran young Jimmy

With his dog and his gun

Crying Uncle oh Uncle

Have you heard what I've done

I met my own true love

Mistook her for a swan

And now I've shot her and killed her

By the setting of the sun 

So out runs Jimmy's Uncle

With his lock hanging gray

Crying Jimmy oh dear Jimmy

Don't you run away

Don't leave your own country

Till the trial do come on

Sure they will never hang you

For the shooting of a swan