Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read

Subject: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
From: GUEST,Martin
Date: 13 Apr 25 - 06:19 AM

I cannot find the lyrics to The Nightingale from the album "A Wench A Whale and a Pint of Good Ale" (1966), so I'm trying to transcribe them myself. In the last verse I can't catch the lyrics.

"This couple agreed to get married with speed,
HIGH IN SIN, to the church they did go."

"High in scent" makes more sense as they had been rolling in the primroses, and the song if full of euphemisms and "in sin" sounds to direct and doesn't fit the tradition.

Can anyone work out those lyrics, or knows where they can be found?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
From: GUEST,Georgina Boyes
Date: 13 Apr 25 - 06:47 AM

The version I know is -
"And so to the church they did go"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 13 Apr 25 - 06:53 AM

Or
"And soon" might sound more like it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
From: Reinhard
Date: 13 Apr 25 - 07:41 AM

Martyn Wyndham-Read sings The Nightingale

My sweetheart, come along, can’t you hear the fine song,
The sweet notes of the nightingale flow?
Can’t you hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
?? As she sings in the valley below. ??

Pretty Betsy, don’t fail, for I’ll carry your pail
Straight home to your cot as we go.
You shall hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
?? As she sings in the valley below. ??

Pray let me alone, I have hands of my own,
And along with you, sir, I’ll not go
For to hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
?? As she sings in the valley below. ??

Pray sit yourself down here with me on the ground,
On this bank where the wild primrose grow.
You shall hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
?? As she sings in the valley below. ??

This couple agreed to get married with speed
And soon to the church they did go.
No more is she afraid for to walk in the shade
?? Or to sit in the valley below. ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nightingale by Martyn Wyndham-Read
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 25 - 10:15 AM

Thanks Georgina, Richard, and Reinhard. Now I can hear that he is singing "Aye, and soon to the church they did go". The pronunciation of the vowel in "soon" threw me.

Comparing my transcription with your @Reinard I noticed other small differences, which may only be on that recording. I have capitalized them.

My sweetheart, come along, can’t you hear the FOND song
The sweet notes of the nightingale flow?
Can’t you hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
|: As she sings in the valley below. :|

PREPARE TO IT UNVEIL, for I’ll carry your pail
SAFE home to your cot as we go.
You shall hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
|: As she sings in the valley below. :|

Pray, let me alone. I have hands of my own.
And along with you, Sir, I’ll not go.
For to hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
|: As she sings in the valley below. :|

Pray, sit yourself down (HERE) with me on the ground
On this bank, where the wild primrose grow.
You shall hear the fond tale of the sweet nightingale
|: As she sings in the valley below. :|

This couple agreed to get married with speed,
Aye, and soon to the [E] church they did go.
No more is she afraid for to walk in the shade
|: Or to sit in the valley below. :|