I"m just a por girl
my story is sad
I've always been courted
By the waggoners lad.
He's courted me daily
by night and by day,
and now he is loading
and going away,

My parents don"t like him
They say he is poor,
They say he"s not worthy
to enter my door.

Oh hard is the fortune
of all womankind;
she 's always controlled.
she's always confined.
controlled by her parents
until she"s a wife,
a slave to her husband
all the days of her life.