The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3339   Message #16506
Posted By: rechal
22-Nov-97 - 02:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Nightingale (Burl Ives, et al)
Subject: RE: Lyric Req: The Nightingale
I remember a snatch of a song about a soldier and a lady who didn't act like one. After the deed was done, she suggested marriage, and he says something like

Oh, no fair maid, that never can be

For I something something something

For I've me a wife, and children twice three

Something something something

Oh, hush, cried the lady, hear the nightingale sing.

It's a lovely song.