[From A Book of Manx Songs (for WW1 troops),1914]

RAMSEY TOWN.

'TWAS once I loved a lass,
I swore I loved her true;
And that I did so long as we
Held Ramsey still in view;
And that I did so long as we
Held Ramsey still in view.

Chorus:

Ramsey Town, 0 Ramsey Town,
Shining by the sea!
Here's a health to my true love,
Wheresoe'er she be.

Her hair was like the gold,
Her eyes, like cloud, were grey.;
We sailed for the blazing South
All on a summer's day. - Chorus.

No grey eyes southward are,
Nor locks of curly gold;
But in the flash of eyes of jet
Lies wealth of love untold. - Chorus.

My, heart is not so small
To stop at one., good lack!
I'll love 'em-all, or twenty such,
Grey eyes, or brown, or black!-Chorus.