Текст песни: Hugh Stenson & Molly Green + перевод

Oh Bold Hugh Stenson is my name

From Ashbourne in the Peak I came And at the age of seventeen

I fell in love with Molly Green

Poor pity then this sorrowed state

King George’s army it is my fate

All for the shilling that passed between

Has parted me from Molly Green

She is a beauty I do declare

She come from High Church in Shropshire

She was an angel all in my eye

Which made me from my colours to fly

But when I was all upon the seas

I could not take one moments ease

She was daily all in my eyes

Home to her side then I did fly

Stenson, she said, I pray forbear

I know that you a deserter are

And if my parents should come to know

How soon they’d prove your overthrow

So to Wollerton near Nottingham

Where I put my trust in a false young man

Thinking him a friend to be

But he like Judas betrayed me

Then a court martial there was called

And I was brought before them all

And for deserting they did me try

And they condemned me for to die

From January until July

Upon these boards and stones I lie

And when I die without control

Let this sore scene sink in your soul

Come all young men where e’er you be

I bid you warning take by me

For at the age of seventeen I fell in love…

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