[00:00.00]The Nightingale[00:01.00]Gather round lads![00:04.00]As I was out walking one morning in May[00:09.73]I spied a young couple who fondly did stray[00:15.83]One was a young maid, so sweet and so fair[00:21.19]And the other was a soldier[00:23.97]and a bold Grenadier[00:26.30]And they kiss, so sweet and comforting[00:28.18]as they clung to each other[00:30.95]Sing along boys![00:32.20]They went arm and arm along the road[00:34.44]like sister and brother[00:37.91]They went arm and arm along the road[00:40.36]till they came to a stream[00:43.59]And they both sat down together[00:45.96]to hear the nightingale sing[00:48.91][00:50.03]Out of his knapsack[00:52.06]he took a fine fiddle[00:55.41]and he played such a merry tone[00:58.04]that you ever did hear[01:01.54]and he played such a merry tone[01:03.58]that the valley did ring[01:06.97]Oh soft cried the fair maid[01:09.31]to hear the nightingale sing[01:11.87]And they kiss, so sweet and comforting[01:13.84]as they clung to each other[01:16.90]They went arm and arm along the road[01:19.89]like sister and brother[01:22.89]They went arm and arm along the road[01:25.63]till they came to a stream[01:28.72]And they both sat down together[01:31.07]to hear the nightingale sing[01:34.37][01:35.00]Well I'm off, to India[01:37.31]for seven long years[01:40.36]Drinkin' wine and whiskey[01:43.00]instead of small beers[01:46.10]And if I return again[01:48.58]it will be in the spring[01:52.12]And we'll both sit down together[01:54.38]to hear the nightingale sing[01:56.66][01:57.00]Well then said the fair maid[01:58.60]will ya not marry me?[02:02.22]Oh no, said the soldier[02:04.78]how well can that be?[02:08.25]For I have my own wife[02:10.56]on the banks of the deep[02:13.85]And she's the fairest damsel that you ever did see[02:19.29]And they kiss, so sweet and comforting[02:20.93]as they clung to each other[02:24.39]They went arm and arm along the road[02:26.83]like sister and brother[02:29.99]They went arm and arm along the road[02:32.47]till they came to a stream[02:35.97]And they both sat down together[02:38.17]to hear the nightingale sing