The Contsant lovers or The Forsaken Maid!

As I was a walking down by the sea shore,
Where the wind and the waves and the billows did roar,
There I heard a strange voice make a sorrowful sound,
'Twas the wind and the waves and the echoes all round.

Chorus (after each verse):
Crying, "Oh, my lover's gone,
He's a 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 sung it was all about love.
I asked her to marry me, marry me, please,
But the answer she gave, "My love's drowned in the sea."

I told her I'd gold and I'd silver beside,
In a coach and six horses with me she could ride.
"No I never will marry nor yet make a wife,
I'll stay constant and true all the time I've got life,"

She threw out her arms and she took a great leap
From the cliffs that were high to the billows so deep,
Crying, "The rocks of the ocean shall make me a bed
And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over my head."

And now every night at six bells they appear
When the moon it is shining, the sky it is clear,
These two constant lovers with all their young charms,
Rolling over and over in each other's arms.



Tim Radford