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 Last night as I lay dreaming, of pleasant days gone by

 My mind was bent on rambling, and to Boston I did fly

 I stepped on board a vision, and I followed with the will

 Till at last, I came to anchor at the rocks on Fairmount Hill

 It was on the 23rd of June, one day before the fair

 When Boston’s sons and daughters and friends assembled there

 The young, the old, the brave and the bold, came their duty to fulfill

 At the parish church on Thatcher, a mile from Fairmount Hill

 I went to see old friends there, to see what they might say

 The old ones were all dead and gone, the young ones turning gray

 I met the broker Hughes, he's as odd as ever still

 See I used to crash at his mother's house, when I hung on Fairmount Hill

 I paid a flying visit to my first and only love

 She's as white as any lily, and as gentle as a dove

 She threw her arm around me saying, "Andy I love you still"

 Oh, she's one miss Fayes O’Bailey, the pride of Fairmount Hill

 I dreamt I'd fought a violent war for the hand of this darling gal

 A-gainst an angry jealous foe by the name of Danny Gill

 The clock it rang in the morning, it rang both loud and shrill

 When I awoke in Cali-fornia, many miles from Fairmount Hill