YOUNG BOB RIDLEY

from Mary Ann Carolan

Come now my boys, I'll sing you a ditty.
I'm seldom at home and it is no pity.
I'm seldom at home and that's no shame,
And Young Bob Ridley is my name.

Chorus
I'm Young Bob Ridley, oh
I'm Young Bob Ridley, oh
I'm Young Bob Ridley, ee-aye-oh
I'm Young Robert Ridley, oh.

I came here across the mountains.
The miles I travelled, I cannot count 'em.
I left my friends on the old plantation,
I came down here for my education.

There's a girl who's at me winking,
She would marry me I'm thinking.
But I have a maid on the Swansea River,
To forsake her I will never.

My true love she sits in the gallery,
The banjo she plays so sweet and merrily.
The banjo she plays so sweet and merrily.
I think she's a-playing for the Young Bob Ridley.