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CONSTANT LOVERS Now as I was a-walking down by the sea shore Where the wind it did whistle and the waves they did roar There I heard a fair maid make a terrible sound Like the wind and the waves that did echo around Ch: Crying "Ohh.. my love is gone He's the youth I adore He's gone and I never shall see him no more" She'd a voice like a nightingale, skin like a dove And the song that she sang it was all about love When I asked her to marry me, marry me please But the answer she gave: "My love's drowned in the seas" I said I had gold and I'd silver beside On a coach and six horses with me she could ride She said: "I'll not marry nor yet prove a wife I'll be constant a true all the days I'll have life" The she flung her arms wide and she took a great leap From the cliffs that were high to the billows so deep Saying: "The rocks of the ocean shall be my death bed And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over my head" And now every night at six bells they appear When the moon is shining and the stars they are clear These two constant lovers with each other's charms Rolling over and over in each other's arms ------------------------------------------------------ recorded by Martyn-Wyndham Read on "Voices. English Traditional Songs" (1992) "A favourite with Broadside printers in England, Ireland and Scotland. Frank Purslow maintains that it is probably Irish in origin. Despite being often collected in England and North America it is rarely to be found in the repertoire of revival singers. The tune is a little intricate" - Paul Adams DT #405 Laws K17 @love @death @sea @sailor filename[ CONSTLOV MJ |
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