"Aggie Asthore" (1862)
Favorite Ballad.
Respectfully
Dedicated to the Ladies of San Francisco
By Benjamin Cotton.
Words and Music by Henry Tucker, 1826-1882
Arranged by George T. Evans, 1837-1876.

1.
Oh! blessings forever on Aggie Asthore,
  She's good and she's lovely, and twenty time more,
With here sparkling blue eyes and her eloquent smile;
  Oh! the hearts of the hardest, 'tis she can bequile,

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Aggie dear.
Oh! blessings forever on her I adore,
For she's good and she's lovely, my Aggie Asthore.

2.
Oh! the first time I saw her was at the village fair
  And the prettiest girls in the country were there,
But none did I see either then or before,
  That at all could compare with my Aggie Asthore.

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3.
Oh! she's kind and she's lovely, she's honest and true,
  And what is far better, a winning love too;
How I long for the day, with the ring on the fore--
  When forever she's mine my sweet Aggie Asthore.

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