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This lass so neat, with smiles so sweet,
Has won my right good-will,
I’d crowns resign to call thee mine,
Sweet lass of Richmond Hill.

— Leonard McNally

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Attributed also to W. Upton in Oxford Song Book, and to W. Hudson in Baring-Gould, English Minstrelsie (1895), vol. 3, p. 54

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