Subject: Lyr Add: THE COCKS ARE CROWING (from Voice Squad)
From:
Barbara
Date: 08 Mar 00 - 09:10 PM
There's a couple phrases I'm not 100% on, one in parentheses and the other "eat nothing but ....?" Sounds like "hare, and..." but it could be something like "heartsen".
Blessings,
Barbara
THE COCKS ARE CROWING
trad., from the singing of Voice Squad
"The cocks are crowing, daylight is appearing
It's drawing nigh to the break of day
Arise my darling, out of your slumbers
Arise my darling, and come away."
And when he came to his true love's window
He kneel-ed low down upon a stone
And through the window he whispered softly,
"Arise, my darling, and let me in."
"Oh, who is that, that is at my window?
And who is that, that gives me no rest?"
"'Tis I, 'tis I, a poor wounded lover,
Who fain, love, would speak to you a while"
"Oh, go away, then and ask your daddy
If he would have you my bride to be,
And if he say no, then return and tell me,
For this is the last time I will trouble thee."
"Oh, my dad-dah, he is in his bed chamber,
He is fast asleep on his bed of ease,
And in his pocket there lies a letter
Which reads, Musha (much, a-) darling, unto your disgrace "
"Oh, what disgrace can he do unto me?
A faithful husband to you I'll be
And what other neighbors have round their houses
The same, my darlin', you will have with me."
"Oh go away, then, and ask your mammy,
I she would have you my bride to be,
And if she say no, then return and tell me,
For this is the last time I will trouble thee."
Oh, my ma-ma, she is an old aged woman,
And scarce can hear, love, a word I say,
But she bids you go, love, and court some other
For I'm not a-fitting of your bride to be."
"Oh, I will go unto the wild mountain,
Where I'll see nothing but the wild deer,
And I'll eat nothing but the wild hares, and
I'll drink nothing but my true love's tears."
"If the Killy Boyne, it were mine in the chorus
And the green fields, they were mine, and wide
If my pen were made of the temper-ed steel, sure
My true love's praises I could never write."
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