BOOT AND SADDLE
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oot, saddle, to horse, and away!Rescue my castle before the hot dayBrightens to blue from its silvery gray,CHORUS.--_Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!_ Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say; 5Many's the friend there, will listen and pray"God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay--CHORUS.--_Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"_ Forty miles off, like a roebuck at bay,Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array; 10Who laughs, "Good fellows ere this, by my fay,CHORUS.--_Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"_ Who? My wife Gertrude; that, honest and gay,Laughs when you talk of surrendering, "Nay!I've better counselors; what counsel they? 15CHORUS.--_Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"_
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