I recently came across Lisa Knapp's album 'Wild and Undaunted' and was captivated by the song Field of Dew that tells the tale of a young man outwitted by a young lass who invites him back to her father's house only to lock him out. I recognise the story but can't place it in my mind... neither can I make out some of the words that are sung, any help? Below is a transcript of the words I can hear (complete with question marks beside confusing or misheard lines):

As I stepped out one midsummer's morning
Early in the May sir
It's I beheld a fair pretty maid
Making of the hay sir

I boldly stepped up to her
Asked to lay down sir
The answer that she gave to me
Was the dew is all around sir

Oh but if you come to my father's house
You may lay in my bed sir
You can have my maidenhead
All on a bed of down sir

But once we got to her father's house
It was walled in all around sir
And she rode in and shut the gate
Shut the young man out sir

Oh when you met with me at first
You did not me fool sir
Take you buy the land of your own?
Go a little more to school sir

And if you meet a pretty girl
A little below the down sir
You must not find the schoolmen?
Or they'll crumple all your gown sir?

There is a cock in my father's garden
Will not tread the hens sir?
I do think in my very heart
That you are one of them sir

There is a flower in my father's garden
Called the marigold sir
And if you will not …. May
You shall not when you would sir

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