BLOW THE CANDLE OUT (4)
1. It's of a young apprentice who went to court his dear
The moon was shining bright-e-ly, the stars were twinkling clear
When he went to his love's window to ease her of her pain
And she quick-e-ly rose and let him in and went to bed again
2. My father and my mother in yonder room do lay
They are embracing one another and so may you and I
They are embracing one another without a fear or doubt
Saying: Take me in your arms, my love, and blow the candle out
3. My mother she'd be ang-e-ry if she should come to know
My father he'd be angry too, to prove my overthrow
I wouldn't forfeit five guineas now that they should find me out
Saying: Take me in your arms, my love, and blow the candle out
4. O when your baby it is born you may dandle it on your knee
And if it be a baby boy then name it after me
For when nine months are over my apprenticeship is out
I'll return and do my duty and blow the candle out
5. Now six months they were over, six months and a day
He wrote his love a letter that he was going away
He wrote his love a letter without a fear or doubt
Saying he never should return again to blow the candle out
6. Come, all you pretty young local girls, a warning take by me
And don't be quick to fall in love with everyone you see
For when they're in their prenticeship they'll swear their time is out
Then they'll leave you, as mine left me, to blow the candle out
Sung by Edgar Burton of Theberton, Leiston, Suffolk, 1953. Recorded by Peter Ken
nedy.
from "Folksongs of Britain and Ireland" (1975), by Peter Kennedy
DT #499
Laws P17
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