Please, help. I can't understand a word in the last stanza in this recording of Child #2. Could somebody check? Thank you. Roberto


THE CAMBRIC SHIRT
Oscar Brand & Jean Ritchie, Riddle Me This, Riverside

Can you make me a cambric shirt?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without a seam or needlework
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

Can you wash it in the well
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Where water ne'er ran nor rain never fell
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

Can you dry it on a thorn
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Which never has grown since Adam was born
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

Can you clear an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the sea water and the salt strand
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

Can you plow it with a hog's horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And seed it down with one pepper corn
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

Can you tie it up in a sack
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And send it to market all on a rat's back
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

Can you deep it all in the salt sea
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And still bring it back to home and me
Then you shall be a true lover of mine

And when you ... and done this work
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Then you may have your cambric shirt
Then you shall be a true lover of mine