Source: THE ARMCHAIR
MAGAZINE 1853
Published Melbourne and also appears as Armchair Chronicle
Tune: yeller Girl
SALLY BAIN
(or, De Nigger Digger's Lament)
I once did love a yeller girl
I Iubbed her as my life;
She came from Lonnen city,
I wished she was my wife:
I tought she would become dat,
But she's left me in great pain,
And now I tink I was a flat
To love Miss Sally Bain.
Den fare de well, Miss Sally Bain,
You've treated me most cruel:
If I knew where my rifle was,
With him I'd hab a duel.
I went to walk de oder day,
(I walks 'cos dere's no train,)
And den I found out de deceit
Ob dis false Sally Bain: '
Anoder nigger had her arm,
I tought it was a shame,
Do' she told me dat dere was no harm—
Oh, wicked Sally Bain!
Den fare de well, &c.
When toiling on de Golden Fields
I rested on my pick,
And said unto my digging chums
" I will to Melbourne quick; "
Twas for her sake dat I did walk
So fast t'rough bush and. plain,
And den I found dat I was baulked
By dis false Sally Bain.
Den fare de well, Miss Sally Bain,
Whate'er de grief to seber,
I'll not behold your face again;
Farewell, farewell for eber!
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