Words as promised.

Mick

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JEALOUS WOMAN
(Words: trad and Eileen Pratt; Tune: Graham Pratt)

  "O woman there       ho-lay
  Beside the shore     ho-lay
  Reach out your hand  ho-lay
  Pull me to land.     ho-lay
  
  (Refrain ho-lay follows each line as for first verse)
  
  Have you no care
  My life to spare?"
  "No I don't care
  For your despair.
  
  Tonight I'll sleep
  Between your sheets,
  All soft and white,
  All through the night.
  
  O tonight I'll rest
  On your love's breast,
  All soft and warm
  In your man's arms."
  
  "Then say farewell for me
  To my babies three;
  Those I love best,
  One still at breast."
  
  "I'll say farewell for thee
  To your brothers three.
  Then you'll be found
  All lying drowned."
  
  "And all my curls so free
  Torn by the sea.
  And my breast milk
  Lost in the silt.
  
  O woman there
  Beside the shore
  Reach out your hand
  Pull me to land."
  

The notes on To Friend And Foe say:
"This was suggested by a Hebridean song of the same theme and title. It gives an unusual account of the eternal triangle. A drowning woman begs assistance of her jealous rival, only to discover that her pleas are wilfully ignored. Eileen added to the traditional words and Graham wrote the music."