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Thread #120122   Message #2612588
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Apr-09 - 02:42 PM
Thread Name: ADD: New Garden Fields & Unison in Harmony (CB&S)
Subject: Lyr Add: NEW GARDEN FIELDS (Coope, Boyes & Simpson
If you want to know the exact words that CB&S sing, here they are. Most differences are minor but there is one more verse at the end. My transcription from the video:


NEW GARDEN FIELDS
As sung by Coope, Boyes & Simpson

1. Come, you pretty fair maids, I pray now attend
Unto these few lines I am going to pen.
It is of lovely Mary I'm going to write.
She is my hope's study and dreams all by night.

2. The eighteenth of August, in the eighth month of the year,
Down by New Garden Fields, where I met my dear,
She appeared like a goddess, or some young divine,
That came like a torment, to torture my mind.

3. "I am no torment, young man" she did say.
"I am pulling these flowers, so fresh and so gay.
I am pulling these flowers which nature does yield,
And I take great delight in the New Garden Fields."

4. I said, "Lovely Mary, dare I make so bold,
Your lily-white hand for the moment to hold?
It would give me more pleasure than all earthly store,
So grant me this favour, and I'll ask you no more."

5. It was then she replied, "I fear you but jest.
If I thought you in earnest, I'd think myself blest.
My father is coming," these words she did say,
"So fare thee well, young man, for I must away."

6. Now she has left me all in the bands of love.
Kind Cupid, protect me, and you powers above.
Kind Cupid, protect me, and now take my part.
She's guilty of murder, for she's quite broke my heart.

7. She turned and said, "Young man, I pity your moan.
I'll leave you no longer for to sigh all alone.
I'll go along with you to some foreign part.
You are the first young man that e'er won my heart."

8. We'll go to church on Sunday and married we'll be.
We'll join our hands in wedlock and sweet unity.
We will join our hands in wedlock and vow to be true.
Your father and mother we will bid adieu.