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Sarah Brightman - Sweet Polly Oliver lyrics



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 docter 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.
Songs list of album: The Trees They Grow So High (1988)
         Title Rating
01    Early One Morning lyrics Add lyrics   -
02    Come You Not from Newcastle? lyrics Add lyrics   -
03   Sweet Polly Oliver lyrics   -
04    The Trees They Grow So High lyrics Add lyrics   -
05   The Ash Grove lyrics   -
06   O Waly, Waly lyrics   -
07    How Sweet the Answer lyrics Add lyrics   -
08   The Plough Boy lyrics   -
09   Voici le Printemps lyrics   -
10    The Last Rose of Summer lyrics Add lyrics   -
11    La Belle, Est au Jardin d'Amour lyrics Add lyrics   -
12   Fileuse lyrics   -
13    Dear Harp of My Country! lyrics Add lyrics   -
14   Little Sir William lyrics   -
15    O Can Ye Sew Cushions? lyrics Add lyrics   -
16    Oft in the Stilly Night lyrics Add lyrics   -
17    Quand J'?tais Chez Non P?re lyrics Add lyrics   -
18    There's None to Soothe lyrics Add lyrics   -
19   Oliver Cromwell lyrics   -
 

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