I really like this version sung by Dick Miles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdYamFmM3g I think the melody he uses is "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon" Please let me know of any corrections I need to make. I'll incorporate them, and then delete your post. THE FOGGY DEW When I was a bachelor, I lived all alone And I worked at the weaver’s trade And the only only thing that I did wrong Was courting a fair young maid. I wooed her in the summertime And also the wintertime too And many a long night I held her in my arms To keep her from the foggy dew When I got so tired of living alone I unto her did say I’ve got a little crib in my old shack Where you can safely lay You’ll be all right in the summertime And also the wintertime too You can lay right warm, away from all harm Away from the Foggy Dew Well, I don’t think much of this old shack And I should lonely be With only my poor old Cyprus cat To keep me company That a cricket singing on the hearth And what can that thing do? If the night turns raw and the fire won’t draw To keep me from the Foggy Dew Well, one night she came my bedside When I was fast asleep She threw her arms around my neck And bitterly she did weep She wept, she cried, she damn near died Poor (?) me, what could I do? So all night long I held her in my arms Just to keep her from the foggy dew Now, come you here and lie by me And wipe away those tears And I lifted her shift up over her head And wrapped it around her ears She was all right in the summertime And also the wintertime too And many a long night I held her in my arms Just to keep her from the Foggy Dew Now, lie you still, you pretty young maid And do not be afraid For if you want to work with me You’ll have to learn my trade I learned her in the summertime And also the wintertime too And truth to tell, she learned that well She saved us from the Foggy Dew One night I lay there as good as gold When she unto me did say I’ve got a little pain that’s hurting me Where no old (?) pain should be I was all right in the summertime And also the wintertime too But I caught some ill or a kind of a chill From laying in the Foggy Dew One night she starts to moan and cry Says I, What’s up with you? I would never have been this way at all If it hadn’t have been for you So I gets my boots and trousers on And I gets my neighbor up too But do what we could, we didn’t do no good She died in the Foggy Dew Again I’m a bachelor, I live with my son And we work at the weaver’s trade And every time I look into his eyes He reminds me of that fair young maid He reminds me of the summertime And also the wintertime too And the many, many times I held her in my arms Just to keep her from the Foggy Dew Great song, Dick!
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