Bonny Bunch Of Roses

By the margin of the ocean, one summer day in the month of June

The feather'd warbling songsters their voices sweetly sang in tune

It was there I met a female all overcome with grief and woe

Conversing with Napoleon on the Bonny Bunch of Roses, O

Then up spoke young Napoleon and he took her by the hand

Saying "Mother dear, be patient, and I soon will take command

And I'll raise a mighty army, and through tremendous dangers go

And I'll conquer all the universe, and I'll have the Bonny Bunch of Roses, O"

"When first you saw great Bonaparte, you fell upon your bended knee

And asked your father's life of him he granted it most manfully

It was then he took an army, and o'er the frozen Alps did go

Saying, "I'll conquer Moscow and come back for the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O"

Oh he took a mighty army, princes and dukes were in his train

He was so well provided for, enough to sweep the world for gain

But when he came to Moscow, all overpowered by sleet and snow

And Moscow was a-blazing, he lost the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O

Now son, don't speak so venturesome, for England has the heart of oak

And England, Ireland, Scotland, their unity will ne'er be broke

So remember your father, in Saint Helena he lies low

And you will follow after, beware of the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O

Adieu, adieu forever, now I bow my youthful head

Had I lived I might have been clever, but now I lie on my dying bed

And as the waters do flow and the weeping willows over me grow

The name of brave Napoleon will enshrine the Bonnie Bunch of Roses, O