Lyrics:

Meeting is a pleasure
Between you, my love, and I;
And it's down in yonder valley
I'll meet you by and by.

As I roved out last Sunday
My love he passed me by,
And I knew his love was altered
By the roving of his eye.

Yes I knew his love was altered
To a girl of high degree,
Saying, “Johnny, lovely Johnny
Your looks have a-wounded me.”

I will send my love a bottle
And I'll fill it to the brim
Saying, “Drink my love as a token,
There's a wager lies between.”

Saying, “Drink my love to the bottom;
Let the bottom be for me.
One guinea lies in a wager
That married we ne'er will be.

For whenever you meet with a pretty girl
With a dark and a roving eye,
You must kiss her and embrace her
Till she tells you the reason why.

You must kiss her and embrace her
Till she causes your heart to yield;
For there's never a faint-hearted soldier
Can win on a battlefield.”