Pad the Road with Me
Roud #4599

Earliest source is a broadside ballad from the Bodleian Libraries

"PAD the ROAD WITH ME."
(J. Kendrew, Printer, York.)
between1803 and 1838


HE said my bonny lassy let us set the time,
That you and I'll be married, that I may call you mine,
That I may call you mine my dear and take you on my knee,
He said, my bonny lassy, will you pad the road with me.

To pad the road with you she said, I'm sure I am too young
Besides my aged parents have never a child but one,
They have never a child but one she said, and never a lass but me,
She said, my bonny laddy, I'll not pad the road with thee.

He said, my bonny lassy, don't marry a clown,
He'll bray you and abuse you, and pull your courage down,
He'll curse you and abuse you, and never let you be;
He said my bonny lassy, won't you pad the road with me.

Were I to pad the road with you, my parents they would frown,
Because I am an heiress of five hundred pounds;
And you are but a weaver, you could not maintain me,   
She said, my bonny laddy, I'll not pad the road with thee.

He said, bonny lassy, don't think the summer long,
My loom I'll set beside you, and sing you a bonny song;
I'll kiss you and I'll cuddle you, and take you on my knee,
And he said, my bonny lassy, now wont you marry me?

Now they are married and has got into bed,
She bless'd the happy hour the weaver did her wed;
Now they live happy in every degree,
She said, my bonny laddy, now I'll pad road with thee.