Digital Tradition Mirror

My Heart Was So Free

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Pennywhistle notation and Dulcimer tab for this song is also available

My Heart Was So Free
(words, John Gay)

My heart was so free,
It rov'd like the Bee,
'Till Polly my Passion requited;
My heart was so free,
It rov'd like the Bee,
'Till Polly my Passion requited;
I sipt each Flower,
I chang'd ev'ry Hour,
I sipt each Flower,
I chang'd ev'ry Hour,
But here ev'ry Flower is united.
But here ev'ry Flower is united.

Additional verses from the movie version:

I conquered and won,
I kiss'd and was gone
I spun like a leaf in the weather;
I conquered and won,
I kiss'd and was gone
I spun like a leaf in the weather;
But Polly's a wife
To last me for life
But Polly's a wife
To last me for life
And we shall go spinning together,
And we shall go spinning together.

(and, at the end, as MacHeath rides triumphantly
     into the distance:)

My heart is so free
It roves like the bee
The morning is waiting and eager;
My heart is so free
It roves like the bee
The morning is waiting and eager;
The rope I have spurn'd
To freedom return'd
The rope I have spurn'd
To freedom return'd
By an opera made by a beggar
By an opera made by a beggar!

From the Beggar's Opera
tune: Pray, Fair One, Be Kind
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