{"id":7338,"date":"2011-03-01T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:35:25","slug":"polly-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7338","title":{"rendered":"Polly Vaughn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Polly_Von.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Polly_Von.mp3\">Polly Vaughn &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n Polly Vaughn is an old Irish folk song about a hunter who mistakenly shoots his true love thinking her to be a swan. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polly_Vaughn\">HERE<\/a> for more details.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\nI will tell of a hunter whose life was undone,<br \/>\nBy the cruel hand of evil at the setting of the sun,<br \/>\nHis arrow was loosed and it flew through the dark,<br \/>\nAnd his true love was slain as the shaft found its mark;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d her apron wrapped about her,<br \/>\nAnd he took her for a swan,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s oh and alas it was she, Polly Vaughn;<\/p>\n<p>He ran up beside her and found that it was she,<br \/>\nHe turned away his face for he could not bear to see,<br \/>\nHe lifted her up and he found she was dead,<br \/>\nA fountain of tears for his true love he shed;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d her apron wrapped about her,<br \/>\nAnd he took her for a swan,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s oh and alas it was she, Polly Vaughn;<\/p>\n<p>He carried her off to his home by the sea,<br \/>\nCrying&#8217; &#8220;Father, oh Father, I&#8217;ve murdered poor Polly!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve killed my fair love in the flower of her life,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d always intended that she be my wife;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But she&#8217;d her apron wrapped about her<br \/>\nAnd I took her for a swan,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s oh and alas it was she, Polly Vaughn;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He roamed near the place where his true love was slain,<br \/>\nAnd wept bitter tears, but his cries were all in vain,<br \/>\nAs he looked on the lake, a swan glided by,<br \/>\nAnd the sun slowly set in the grey of the sky;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But she&#8217;d her apron wrapped about her<br \/>\nAnd I took her for a swan,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s oh and alas it was she, Polly Vaughn;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;d her apron wrapped about her<br \/>\nAnd I took her for a swan,<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s oh and alas it was she, Polly Vaughn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Polly Vaughn &#8211; Click To Play Polly Vaughn is an old Irish folk song about a hunter who mistakenly shoots his true love thinking her to be a swan. Click HERE for more details. Lyrics: I will tell of a hunter whose life was undone, By the cruel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polly Vaughn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-love","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8769,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7338\/revisions\/8769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}