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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