[Verse 1] One evening fair to take the air Down by blackwaterside And gazing all around me This handsome lad I spied, spied This handsome lad I spied
[Verse 2] All through the foremost part of the night While we lay in sport and play And this young man arose And he gathered his clothes He said, "Fair thee well today" He said, "Fair thee well today"
[Verse 3] That's not the promise that you gave to me When you first you lay on my breast You can make me believe with your lying tongue That the sun rose in the west, the west That the sun rose in the west
[Verse 4] Then go home, go home to your father's garden Go home and weep your fill And think of your own misfortune That you brought with your own want and will That you brought with your own want and will
[Verse 5] There's not a girl in the whole wide world More easily led than me When the fishes they fly and the seas run dry 'Tis then he'll marry me, he'll marry me 'Tis then he'll marry me 'Tis then he'll marry me 'Tis then he'll marry meTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.