Gone the Rainbow

Shule, shule, shule-a-roo,

Shule-a-rak-shak, shule-a-ba-ba-coo.

When I saw my Sally Babby Beal,

Come bibble in the boo shy Lorey.

Here I sit on Buttermilk Hill;

Who could blame me, cry my fill;

Every tear would turn a mill,

Johnny's gone for a soldier.

Shule, shule, shule-a-roo,

Shule-a-rak-shak, shule-a-ba-ba-coo.

When I saw my Sally Babby Beal,

Come bibble in the boo shy Lorey.

I sold my flax, I sold my wheel,

to buy my love a sword of steel;

So it in battle he might wield,

Johnny's gone for a soldier.

Shule, shule, shule-a-roo,

Shule-a-rak-shak, shule-a-ba-ba-coo.

When I saw my Sally Babby Beal,

Come bibble in the boo shy Lorey.

Oh my baby, oh, my love,

Gone the rainbow, gone the dove.

Your father was my only love;

Johnny's gone for a soldier.

Shule, shule, shule-a-roo,

Shule-a-rak-shak, shule-a-ba-ba-coo.

When I saw my Sally Babby Beal,

Come bibble in the boo shy Lorey.