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Thread #129736   Message #2914603
Posted By: RTim
26-May-10 - 10:27 AM
Thread Name: Origins: One Morning in The Spring
Subject: Origins: One Morning in The Spring
The song below is from a CD called - Blow The Man Down - a collection of Sea Songs & Shanties (with various performers), where is is sung by the late great Cyril Tawney.
Now it is obviously a version of Roud 152 - Sweet William, but I cannot find "Exactly" which collection it comes from, or is it a version cobbled together by Cyril.

Can anyone help?

Tim Radford

One Morning in The Spring. - via Cyril Tawney.
It was one morning in the spring
I went on board to serve the King
I left my dearest dear behind
Who oft times told me her heart was mine.

When I came back to her fatherÕs hall
Enquiring for my jewel all
Her cruel old father this replied
Her mama says Oh if you deny.

Oh, she has married another man
A richer man for all his life
A richer man for all his life
Oh, and he has made her his lawful wife.

Oh God curse gold and silver too,
And all false women that wonÕt prove true
For some will take and then will break
All for the sake of richery.

Oh stop young man donÕt talk too fast
The fault is great but none of mine
The fault is great but none of mine
DonÕt speak so hard of the female kind.

If I had gold you might have part
As I have none you have gained my heart
YouÕve gained it all with a free good will
So keep my vows and hold them still.

Oh since hard fortune around me frowns
IÕll sail this ocean around and round
IÕll sail this ocean until I die
IÕll quit my ways on a mountain high.